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!


Three Novels (ed. 1961)

Alberto Moravia Quotes

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 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 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 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....