Alberto Moravia Quotes
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— Alberto Moravia
When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
— Alberto Moravia
This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.
— Alberto Moravia
— Alberto Moravia
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 one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.
— Alberto Moravia
— Alberto Moravia
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
— Alberto Moravia
— Alberto Moravia
“The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.”
— Alberto Moravia
The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.
— Alberto Moravia
“The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.”
— Alberto Moravia
“I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.”
— Alberto Moravia
“Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.”
— 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
“I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.”
— Alberto Moravia
I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.
— Alberto Moravia
“A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.”
— Alberto Moravia
“War has become an affair of machines ... and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.”
— Alberto Moravia
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