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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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You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.
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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.
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Although not all men possess the same intellectual capacity and the same knowledge, they all, even the most wretched, have their own moral world in its entirety.
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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, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes—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!
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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.
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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 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.
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
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Alberto Moravia
Born:
November 28, 1907
Died:
September 26, 1990
(aged 82)
Bio:
Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism.
Known for:
The Woman of Rome (1947)
Racconti Romani
The Time of Indifference (1929)
Two Women (1957)
Boredom (1960)
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