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One Quotes by Alberto Moravia
- Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do…
- Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
- Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by…
- Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that he…
- There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent…
- Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can…
- ...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though…
- An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be…
- Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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