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"The first gift that the Pope has given us and it is one that is visible on the faces of Angolans. From there, we can find the strength to continue on our mission of announcing the Gospel with a renewed spirit, in communion with the Holy Father."

"The Pope would be ready to sign an agreement with China tomorrow, if China so wished. The political problems could be resolved. Indeed, there already are technical solutions. There is no issue to separate us."

"There are particularly large dioceses and archdioceses that require, among other things, particular gifts for pastoral government. I don't think it unreasonable or inadvisable to appoint to such Sees a churchman who has already given fair proof of himself in a less complex diocese. That then there may be people who maneuver to "make a career", that lies in the nature of things, it's a matter of human temptation. Even we churchmen are not immune from original sin..."

"A cute girl, when she makes a mistake, is more easily subject to criticism. Now it is a problem that I no longer ask myself, I try to give my best and be as professional as possible. Then the physical aspect is certainly a good business card for the world of TV, but it goes into the background."

"Journalism was born "man". Women have managed to assert themselves and certainly there has been no lack of authoritative female signatures. However, I think that to have a female director requires further evolution."

"I really like both going out to do the services, and preparing the news. These are two equally fascinating aspects."

"The positive aspect is that it is a job that varies from day to day. Events and news are always new. Then it is a great advantage to combine work and passion."

"One must always infuse comfort and hope."

"[Holy Cross,] you resolve every bitterness."

"[Edvige] lived an ordinary life, from the outside the same as that of so many laypeople, but extraordinary in terms of her intimacy with God, her union with Him, to the point of identifying with Jesus in a perfect and transforming union with Him, the spouse of souls. Friend of the poor and the marginalized, she had words of consolation for everyone … If we ask what are the strong points of the Christian life of this sister of ours, and which lead her to be an example of welcoming prayerfulness and humble and joyful abnegation, we would say that there are essentially two: constant contemplation of the Crucified Lord and the adoration of the Eucharist."

"They are powerful signs, those that Garau wanted to paint. They are the reconnection of a tradition that has its roots in the best Renaissance and even earlier in Italian sacred art but revisiting it in a contemporary, not to say futuristic, key. They are a reflection on what the transcendent is: on this or other planets, even if there were other intelligences, the question of what is not visible would still arise. It is the attempt of art to suggest more than answers, the eternal questioning."

"Triumph of immediacy, aesthetic enjoyment, power of color, free spontaneity, a call to something gigantic, powerful, improbable, to something absent but substantial; this is what manifests itself in the new, small, enigmatic sheets that Salvatore Garau dedicated to Richard Wagner. The movement of the stripes of color - pulsating, restless, unpredictable, paths of unstoppable energies and tensions - suggest wind and flames, bodies that contort and interpenetrate, full of power and sensual force [...] seductive and disturbing are not however dedicated only to Richard Wagner [...] features that are not secondary to understand his poetics, in which an obsessive monochromatism, made up of shades of red, seems to evoke the spirit of the mythical struggles of the heroes of Wagner. (Lóránd Hegyi)"

"Immaterial sculpture is not seen with the eyes but with the heart."

"The void, only apparent, is actually imbued with life and sacred mystery. Divine energy has made the void a manifest work, and from the void everything has come."

"Just the title, a soft light and the total absence of any physical intervention on the wall are already an immense presence."

"Will the concept of the Sacred exist in some planet of another galaxy where, by now it is certain, thousands of worlds preserve some form of life?"

"We are living in a moment in which our physicality, our being there is replaced by our virtual images and our voice, even this impalpable. Our being flesh and blood has to deal with the absence that is the true presence in these times [referring to his 'I Am', The invisible sculpture, Garau make in 2021 during Covid19 era."

"The vacuum is nothing more than a space full of energy, and even if we empty it and there is nothing left, according to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, that nothing has a weight. Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us."

"What is the problem? If someone goes to bed with your wife you get angry, but if you go to bed and you agree, the question is resolved. [...] If the works have been made available by the authors themselves. It's all linear. If anything, it will be a question of understanding what the product of this union is. On the other hand, it would be artistically serious if one intervened on a work without the author's consent. In practice it is unthinkable that this operation will be done on a work of the sixteenth century, just to understand. (Vittorio Sgarbi)"

"This cosmic character of Salvatore Garau's figurative world, this emotionalized universalism links his aesthetics with the tradition of romanticism, especially of romantic landscape painting, in which imposing natural phenomena are interpreted as a metaphor for the cosmos and the metaphysical hierarchy of existence. (Lóránd Hegyi)"

"Salvatore Garau's canvases open onto a gigantic scene, an unlimited horizon that becomes the scene of majestic and impressive events ... We are confronted with an unknown energy. (Lóránd Hegyi)"

"Berlinguer was an honest person, but that's not enough to be a communist."

"Yet, alongside Western weaknesses, there were also serious problems for the Soviet system, while the American position was less bleak, in both absolute and relative terms, than the successive electoral defeats of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in presidential elections in 1976 and 1980 might suggest. Moreover, the failure of the Communists to benefit substantially from the changes in Portugal, Spain and Greece was matched by Communist weakness elsewhere in Western Europe. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, French President from 1974 to 1981, and Helmut Schmidt, German Chancellor from 1974 to 1982, combined to act as a very strong stabilising force and to relaunch the EEC project. Within the Socialist International, the so-called Socialist Triangle of Willy Brandt, Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister, and Bruno Kreisky, Austrian Chancellor, was dominant. In Italy, the Communist Party, the most powerful in Western Europe, adopted a ‘Euro-Communism’ that was opposed to Soviet direction. Enrico Berlinguer, who became Party Secretary in 1973, a key figure, was committed to the existing democratic system and pursued what was termed the ‘historic compromise’ with the established Christian Democrat-dominated political system. A pact was negotiated in 1976, with the Communist Party agreeing not to try to overthrow the Christian Democratic government. Euro-Communism was a term coined in 1975 by Western European Communist leaders keen to demonstrate their democratic credentials. More generally in Western Europe, the declining position of heavy industries was a challenge to the trade unions that were central to left-wing political parties, and notably to the Communists."

"If you talk to the shadows, at least you know them well and the words, all of them, unfold themselves with ease on muddled walls and streets, when dusk comes on."

"They do not speak of boundless skies, of passing loves like silver clouds. They speak of cheerless towns, unwound: on hazy moors of muffled music."