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It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
— Alberto Moravia
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
— Alberto Moravia
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
— Alberto Moravia
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
I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.
— Alberto Moravia
You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.
— Alberto Moravia
Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
— Alberto Moravia
A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.
— Alberto Moravia
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
— Alberto Moravia
The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.
— Alberto Moravia
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
— Alberto Moravia
This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.
— Alberto Moravia
War has become an affair of machines ... and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.
— Alberto Moravia
The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]
— Alberto Moravia
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.
— Alberto Moravia