“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

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.

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Italian writer and journalist 1907–1990

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