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When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's...

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In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which...

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The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn...

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I felt that the metal of my spirit, like a bar of iron that is softened and bent by a persistent fla...

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They say that, if we manage to live without too great an effort, it is entirely owing to the automat...

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An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the ...

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Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, th...

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I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with mo...

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The Woman of Rome

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

The Woman of Rome

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if ...

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The Woman of Rome

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Alberto Moravia

Novelist

Born: 1907-11-28

Died: 1990-09-26

Alberto Moravia (November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990), born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian fiction-writer, screenwriter and essayist. His novels were initially attacked by the Fascist government and placed on the Index by the Catholic church, but later won great critical and popular success.More