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„Ich gehe und laß dich zurück im Abend, // der, wenn auch traurig, so süß // auf uns Lebende fällt […]“

—  Pier Paolo Pasolini

aus Le ceneri di Gramsci, Poesie der Welt, Seiten 326, 327, Übersetzung: Toni und Sabina Kienlechner
Original ital.: "Me ne vado, ti lascio nella sera // che, benché triste, così dolce scende // per noi viventi […]" - Poesie der Welt, EditionStichnote im Prophyläen Verlag Berlin, 1985, ISBN 3 550 08516 8

„If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.“

—  Pier Paolo Pasolini

Interview in Film Culture, no. 42 (1966), p. 101 https://books.google.it/books?hl=it&id=Jq2RAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22If+you+know%22.

„The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.“

—  Pier Paolo Pasolini

„I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.“

—  Pier Paolo Pasolini