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It is what we are forced to do...

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

Modern man-whether in the womb...

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 is living in a world in which he is a means and whose end is not his business.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

The novel as we knew it in the...

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

...my boredom might be describ...

...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 (Pincherle) 4 quotes

And we all know love is a glas...

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

This thought strengthened in m...

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not l...

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 sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

I like to compare my method wi...

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

I don't think it's possible to...

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

The less one notices happiness...

The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

There are many reasons for kee...

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 to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

I do not foresee a time when I...

I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

You can't think on purpose abo...

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

Yes, one uses what one knows, ...

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 falsifying and fictionalizingЂ'I'm a liar, in fact. That means I'm a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

War has become an affair of ma...

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

The ratio of literacy to illit...

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

Because the world to-day is so...

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 what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudesЂ'into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

Dictatorships are one-way stre...

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

A writer survives in spite of ...

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

An uncertain evil causes anxie...

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 true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle) 4 quotes

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