Alberto Moravia цитаты
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Alberto Moravia
Дата рождения: 28. Ноябрь 1907
Дата смерти: 26. Сентябрь 1990
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Альбе́рто Мора́виа — итальянский писатель, новеллист и журналист.
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Габриэль Лауб31
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русский писатель, публицист и журналистЦитаты Alberto Moravia
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„Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.“
— Alberto Moravia
Interviewed in The New Yorker, May 7, 1955.
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„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, The Time of Indifference
Gli indifferenti (1929; repr. Milano: Corbaccio, 1974) p. 238; Tami Calliope (trans.) The Time of Indifference (South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, 2000) p. 207.
„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, Contempt
Il Disprezzo (Milano: Bompiani, 1954) p. 77; Angus Davidson (trans.) Contempt (New York: New York Review of Books, 2005) p. 75.
„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.“
— Alberto Moravia
La noia (Milano: Bompiani, 1960) pp. 10-11; Angus Davidson (trans.) Boredom (New York: New York Review of Books, 1999) p. 8.
