Quotes by
Alberto Moravia |
1907-1990 , Italian writer
-Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti (1929) and for the anti-fascist novel Il Conformista (The Conformist), whuch became a film by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1970. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, Il Disprezzo (“A Ghost at Noon” or “Contempt”), filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris, La Noia (Boredom).
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Quotations
| • | The less one notices happiness, the greater it is. |
| • | It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will. |
| • | Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic. |
| • | 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. |
