Stefano Benni

Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.

— Stefano Benni

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

— Stefano Benni

If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.

— Stefano Benni

"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.

— Stefano Benni

“Vatra je moja nežnost, jer anđeo i zver u moju dušu padoše zagrljeni...”

— Stefano Benni

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

— Stefano Benni

“When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.”

— Stefano Benni

“Passiamo metà della vita a deridere ciò in cui altri credono, e l'altra metà a credere in ciò che altri deridono.”

— Stefano Benni

“[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.”

— Stefano Benni

“Labella snapped shut her cell phone with a sigh, and looked down at her fingernails, delightfully painted a useless shade of purple.”

— Stefano Benni

“The winter was blasting its cold winds of dire portent into the tender face of springtime.”

— Stefano Benni

“Vidi che la banconota era tutta stropicciata, come l'assegno di Fefelli quel giorno a scuola, ma era una cosa diversa. I soldi…

— Stefano Benni

“Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to…

— Stefano Benni

“[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however . These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary…

— Stefano Benni