“It is important that death finds us alive!”
Originale: (it) L'importante è che la morte ci trovi vivi. Il malloppo (1971).<br><br>Quoted in Emotions and the Therapist (2015) by Paolo Bertrando, p. 128 https://books.google.it/books?id=l8mzCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA128. Variant translation: "The important thing is to make sure that when death comes, it finds us still alive." Quoted in One Hundred Days of Happiness (2015) by Fausto Brizzi, trans. Anthony Shugaar, p. 235 https://books.google.it/books?id=jEh4BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA235.