"This thought strengthened in me my belief that……" — Alberto Moravia
"This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive."
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Alberto Moravia
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24 Quotes by Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia has 24 quotes on this site.
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When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way.…
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Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he…
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It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free…
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do…
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The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
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War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.
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Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real…
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I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.
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I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather…
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The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
— Paul Auster
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
— Richard Bach
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The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up…
— Michele Bachmann
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
— Pearl Bailey
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me…
— James A. Baldwin
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express…
— Ansel Adams
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My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful…
— Travis Barker
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As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then…
— Roseanne Barr
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I…
— Roseanne Barr
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