Elsa Morante

“For Blitz, meanwhile, an almost tragic dilemma had begun. As time passed, he and Giuseppe understood each other better and better, conversing…

— Elsa Morante

“A merrier baby than he had never been seen. Everything he glimpsed around him roused his interest and stirred him to joy.…

— Elsa Morante

“How strange and unnatural destiny is. I married a man eight years younger than myself, and according to the law of nature…

— Elsa Morante

“Una speranza, a volte, indebolisce le coscienze, come un vizio.”

— Elsa Morante

“I'm going to cover the whole world like it was a neighborhood, and in airplanes and raing cars, not on foot!”

— Elsa Morante

“In the end, of the one thousand fifty-six who had left, in a body, from the Tiburtina station, a total of fifteen…

— Elsa Morante

It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told.

— Elsa Morante

“She was still obliged to leave the house every day, on her usual hunt for food; and especially on days of bad…

— Elsa Morante

Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is…

— Elsa Morante

“In his endless journeys of exploration, crawling on all fours around the Urals and the Amazon and the Australian archipelagos which the…

— Elsa Morante

So much of the news was invented for propaganda.

— Elsa Morante