Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
“For Blitz, meanwhile, an almost tragic dilemma had begun. As time passed, he and Giuseppe understood each other better and better, conversing and playing together on the floor with immense amusement, and so he found himself madly in love also with Giuseppe, as well as Nino. But Nino was always out, and Giuseppe always at home: thus it was impossible… — Elsa Morante Copy Share
“A merrier baby than he had never been seen. Everything he glimpsed around him roused his interest and stirred him to joy. He looked with delight at the threads of rain outside the window, as if they were confetti and multicolored streamers. And if, as happens, the sunlight reached the ceiling indirectly and cast the shadows of the street's morning… — Elsa Morante Copy Share
“How strange and unnatural destiny is. I married a man eight years younger than myself, and according to the law of nature I should have been the first to die, with Him at my side. Instead, it was my destiny to witness His death.' In speaking of Giuseppe, she always wrote Him, with a capital letter. Her style was prolix,… — Elsa Morante Copy Share
“I'm going to cover the whole world like it was a neighborhood, and in airplanes and raing cars, not on foot!” — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
“In the end, of the one thousand fifty-six who had left, in a body, from the Tiburtina station, a total of fifteen came back… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told. — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
“She was still obliged to leave the house every day, on her usual hunt for food; and especially on days of bad weather she… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
“In his endless journeys of exploration, crawling on all fours around the Urals and the Amazon and the Australian archipelagos which the furniture of… — Elsa Morante Copy Share Image
