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Alberto Moravia
Dátum narodenia: 28. november 1907
Dátum úmrtia: 26. september 1990
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Alberto Moravia, vlastným menom Alberto Pincherle bol taliansky spisovateľ. Patrí medzi najvýznamnejších talianskych spisovateľov 20. storočia.
Citáty 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.
