Italo Svevo Quotes

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

Sorrow and love
life, in other words
cannot be considered a sickness because they hurt.

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and ... the third I can't remember.

You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

In psychoanalysis there is never repetition, neither of the same images nor

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

When will you discover that it would be a good idea to memorize your life, even the large part of it that will revolt you?

When my eyes closed, however, in the darkness I saw that her words had created a new world, like all words that are not true. I

I wanted again May roses in December. I

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

The fancies of wine are authentic events.

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

Complete freedom consists of being able to do what you like, provided you also do something you like less.

Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish.

The sun didn't illuminate me! When you are old, you remain in shadow, even when you have wit.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.