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Alberto Moravia

Geburtstag: 28. November 1907
Todesdatum: 26. September 1990

Alberto Moravia war ein italienischer Schriftsteller.

Zitate Alberto Moravia

„Wenn eines Schriftstellers Ruhm die Zeitläufe überdauert, dann nicht wegen, sondern trotz seiner Überzeugungen.“

— Alberto Moravia

„Der Unwissende hat Mut, der Wissende hat Angst.“

— Alberto Moravia

Über Angst, Mut

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

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— Alberto Moravia
Interviewed in The New Yorker, May 7, 1955.

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

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— Alberto Moravia, The Woman of Rome

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

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— Alberto Moravia, Boredom

„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.“

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— 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.

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

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— Alberto Moravia, The Woman of Rome

„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.“

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— Alberto Moravia, Contempt
Il Disprezzo (Milano: Bompiani, 1954) p. 77; Angus Davidson (trans.) Contempt (New York: New York Review of Books, 2005) p. 75.

„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.“

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— Alberto Moravia

„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.“

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— Alberto Moravia
La noia (Milano: Bompiani, 1960) pp. 10-11; Angus Davidson (trans.) Boredom (New York: New York Review of Books, 1999) p. 8.

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Zitate Alberto Moravia

„Wenn eines Schriftstellers Ruhm die Zeitläufe überdauert, dann nicht wegen, sondern trotz seiner Überzeugungen.“

„Der Unwissende hat Mut, der Wissende hat Angst.“

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

„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.“

„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.“

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

„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.“

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