Luciano De Crescenzo (1928–2019) was an Italian engineer, writer, film actor, and director.
Born in Naples, De Crescenzo graduated in engineering. He worked for IBM Italy until 1976 when he published the bestseller Così parlò Bellavista (Thus Spake Bellavista: Naples, Love, and Liberty,) a collection of facts and anecdotes about his city. It sold 20 million copies in Italy and was translated into 25 languages. He also published a long series of books, including novels and popularizations of philosophy.
In the 1980s, De Crescenzo débuted as an actor in Il Pap’occhio (“In the Pope’s Eye.”) He directed the successful movie adaptation of Così parlò Bellavista (1984) and played the protagonist. As an actor and writer, he is known for the comedies known for 32 Dicembre (1988, ’32 December’) and Croce e delizia (1995, ‘Mixed blessing.’)
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Idleness is a very useful tool for measuring the qualities of a human being.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
Many are studying how to extend life, when instead it should be enlarged.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
The ultimate in vanity is writing down your thoughts, hiding your notebook and hoping someone will find it.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
Topics: Religion
Doubt is a discreet divinity, a friend who knocks kindly on your door. Doubt calmly exposes his ideas and is ready to radically change them as soon as someone proves them wrong.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
“Only fools have no doubts;” “Are you sure?”; “I have no doubts!”
—Luciano De Crescenzo
Topics: Life, Attitude, Living, Difficulties, Perspective, Difficulty
The word exaggeration does not exist in the vocabulary of love.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
The wise man does not deny and affirm, he does not exalt himself and he does not despair, he does not believe either in the existence of God or in his existence. The wise man has no certainty, he only has more or less probable hypotheses.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
Topics: Weakness
Often what at first seems hopelessly nefarious can hide absolutely unexpected positive consequences, just wait a little and let things take their course. In short, even for facts, as for people, one must never be in a hurry to judge from first appearances.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
Like all singles, I attach great importance to friendship, I follow all friends with devotion.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
In short, there are moments in life when our individuality and our personal needs prevail over the needs of those we love.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
The stupidity is the engine of the world.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
Over time, even the beautiful becomes less beautiful, and the ugly less ugly. Beauty and ugliness, in fact, are characteristic of the first approaches; later they tend to get closer.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
No one is more unhappy than a peeping tom in a nudist camp.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
Power is liked precisely because it arouses envy.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
In short, standing still and doing nothing but thinking also means growing.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
A family is not chosen: you are born and you find it around you smiling at you.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
Man is born good by nature, only to later become a beast because of the Society.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
I am not you and you are not me. However, we are both of us.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
The hug is the most beautiful expression of love, but when it is also passionate, when two bodies in love decide to merge, we get stuck to the point with the other person that right at that moment we seem to have found our part.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
Youth, maturity and old age are three periods of life that we could rename “revolution, reflection and television”. It starts with wanting to change the world and ends with changing the channels.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
Two parallel lines only meet indefinitely when they don’t care anymore.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
Love is an urgency that tickles our lives until it becomes a necessity.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
The poverty of the future will be ignorance, and the social differences of the years to come will be established, rather than by money, by the culture of those who know something and those who know nothing.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
Some fear that Happiness is a very distant, almost unattainable good, which is why they run as fast as they can in the hope of getting closer to it, never realizing that the more they run, the more they stray from it.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
Power does not satisfy, on the contrary it is like a drug and always requires greater doses.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
It is not the individual who creates the disorder, but it is the environment that favors it.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
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