Alberto Moravia citáty
Alberto Moravia
Dátum narodenia: 28. november 1907
Dátum úmrtia: 26. september 1990
Alberto Moravia, vlastným menom Alberto Pincherle bol taliansky spisovateľ. Patrí medzi najvýznamnejších talianskych spisovateľov 20. storočia.
Citáty Alberto Moravia
„Čas vôbec nie je istý spojenec - nikdy nevieme, pre koho pracuje.“
Prisudzované výroky
„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, kniha L'Ennui
In principio, dunque, era la noia, volgarmente chiamata caos. Iddio, annoiandosi della noia, creò la terra, il cielo, l'acqua, gli animali, le piante, Adamo ed Èva; i quali ultimi, annoiandosi a loro volta in paradiso, mangiarono il frutto proibito. Iddio si annoiò di loro e li cacciò dall'Eden.
La noia (Milano: Bompiani, 1960) pp. 10-11; Angus Davidson (trans.) Boredom (New York: New York Review of Books, 1999) p. 8.
„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.“
Un male incerto provoca inquietudine, perché, in fondo, si spera fino all'ultimo che non sia vero; ma un male sicuro, invece, infonde per qualche tempo una squallida tranquillità.
Zdroj: Il Disprezzo (Milano: Bompiani, 1954) p. 77; Angus Davidson (trans.) Contempt (New York: New York Review of Books, 2005) p. 75.
„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.“
Quando non si è sinceri bisogna fingere, a forza di fingere si finisce per credere; questo è il principio di ogni fede.
Zdroj: Gli indifferenti (1929; repr. Milano: Corbaccio, 1974) p. 238; Tami Calliope (trans.) The Time of Indifference (South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, 2000) p. 207.
„And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.“
— Alberto Moravia, kniha The Woman of Rome
Zdroj: The Woman of Rome
„Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.“
Interviewed in The New Yorker, May 7, 1955.
„This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.“
— Alberto Moravia, kniha The Woman of Rome
Zdroj: The Woman of Rome
