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“[…], il pensa qu’il était beau d’agir, même si c’était pour détruire sa propre vie; et qu’agir, c’était justement cela : accomplir des actes d’après des idées et non point par nécessité.”

Alberto Moravia

La Désobéissance ('), 1948

“Ainsi, ne pouvait-il s’empêcher de penser, c’était cela vivre, cela continuer à vivre : faire avec passion et ténacité des choses absurdes et insensées, pour lesquelles il était impossible de fournir la moindre justification et qui mettaient continuellement ceux qui les faisaient dans un état de servitude, de remords et d’hypocrisie.”

Alberto Moravia

La Désobéissance ('), 1948

“[…] la vérité n’est pas toujours bonne à dire et […], avant de la dire, il faut savoir à qui l’on s’adresse.”

Alberto Moravia

Nouvelles romaines ('), 1954

“[…] les idées sont comme les puces : elles marchent toutes seules et quand tu t’y attends le moins, les voilà qui te mordent et te font sursauter.”

Alberto Moravia

Nouvelles romaines ('), 1954

“Mourir, lui arrivait-il parfois de penser, était peut-être le seul vrai plaisir que la vie réservât aux hommes.”

Alberto Moravia

La Désobéissance ('), 1948

“Ainsi, pensa-t-il néanmoins, si l’on n’acceptait pas d’être ce que les autres voulaient ou croyaient que l’on fût, on était puni ou considéré comme malade.”

Alberto Moravia

La Désobéissance ('), 1948

Alberto Moravia: Citations en anglais

“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

Quando non si è sinceri bisogna fingere, a forza di fingere si finisce per credere; questo è il principio di ogni fede.
Source: 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.”

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Alberto Moravia livre The Woman of Rome

Source: 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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Source: Boredom

“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

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.
Source: 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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“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 livre 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.

“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.

“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 livre The Woman of Rome

Source: The Woman of Rome