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Alberto Moravia has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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. I trust…
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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 is forced,…
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It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
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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 not resolve…
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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 autobiography; I…
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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 than the…
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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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If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and…
— Jean Charest
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
— Jack Kevorkian
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Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There…
— Marcel Proust
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you…
— Alberto Moravia
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There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes,…
— Albert Camus
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A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases,…
— Karl Popper
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The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as…
— William Godwin
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They say blood is thicker than water only in certain cases you need water to live u learn that in the basics.
— Styles P
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