Alberto Moravia цитаты

„У того, кто никогда не меняет взглядов, обычно нет никаких взглядов.“

„Процент неграмотных — величина постоянная, только в наше время неграмотные умеют читать.“

„Что мне нравится у поэтов – это поэзия.“

„Дорога цивилизации вымощена консервными банками.“

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

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

“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.”

“Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.”

“In the beginning was boredom, commonly called chaos. God, bored with boredom, created the earth, the sky, the waters, the animals, the plants, Adam and Eve; and the latter, bored in their turn in paradise, ate the forbidden fruit. God became bored with them and drove them out of Eden.”

“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”

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