It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent. — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
“A vida assemelha-se um pouco a uma enfermidade: também procede por crises e por depressões. A diferença entre as outras doenças é que a… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
“Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish.” — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer. — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and love ― life, in other words ― cannot be considered a sickness because they hurt.” — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
“Complete freedom consists of being able to do what you like, provided you also do something you like less.” — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance. — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
“... a preached immorality is more to be punished than an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate; you propagandize… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
“Unlike other sicknesses, life is always fatal. It doesn't tolerate therapies. It would be like stopping the holes that we have in our bodies,… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves. — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
