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Quote by Antonio Gramsci
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you bea

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall – that is my strength, my only strength. – Antonio Gramsci

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After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious. . . . Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late. – Antonio Gramsci

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