"It is what we are forced to do……" — Alberto Moravia

"It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will."

— Alberto Moravia

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24 Quotes by Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way.…
Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he…
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do…
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.
Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real…
I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather…
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for…

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about… — J. J. Abrams
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was… — Lance Armstrong
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a… — Rowan Atkinson
When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -… — Rowan Atkinson

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