Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.

—Sophia Loren

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Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren, is an Italian actress. Over a career spanning more than seven decades, she has received an Academy Award, seven David di Donatello Awards, five special Golden Globe Awards, a Cecil B. DeMille Award, a BAFTA Award,...

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

—Sophia Loren

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

—Sophia Loren

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

—Sophia Loren

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

—Sophia Loren

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It seems that it is only the recent West that has deemed it unnecessary to "initiate" young men. Otherwise, culture after culture felt that if the young man were not introduced to "the mysteries," he would not know what to do with his pain and would almost always abuse his power. It looks like they were right.

—Richard Rohr

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Reality, no matter how widened and heightened our perceptions, never ceases to be anything but the effect on us of an infinite mystery.

—Laurens Van der Post

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

—Francis Bacon

True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message: "You must change your life.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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