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Giovanni Falcone
Giovanni Falcone

Giovanni Falcone, an Italian judge, was born on May 18, 1939, in Sicily, Italy. He played a crucial role in the fight against the Mafia and is hailed as a pioneer in Italy's anti-Mafia struggle. Falcone was assassinated on May 23, 1992, while traveling to Sicily. more

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“Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?”

“If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.”

“Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.”

“We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.”