Italo Svevo Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Italo Svevo
Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer. — Italo Svevo
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them. — Italo Svevo
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? — Italo Svevo
A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. — Italo Svevo
The sun didn't illuminate me! When you are old, you remain in shadow, even when you have wit. — Italo Svevo
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction. — Italo Svevo
Unlike other sicknesses, life is always fatal. It doesn't tolerate therapies. It would be like stopping the holes that we have in our bodies, believing them wounds. We would die of strangulation the moment we were treated. — Italo Svevo
Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano. — Italo Svevo
Complete freedom consists of being able to do what you like, provided you also do something you like less. — Italo Svevo
To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence. — Italo Svevo
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness — Italo Svevo
Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility. — Italo Svevo
A preached immorality is more to be punished than an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate; you propagandize murder only through wickedness. — Italo Svevo
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and ... the third I can't remember. — Italo Svevo
In psychoanalysis there is never repetition, neither of the same images nor — Italo Svevo
Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves. — Italo Svevo
Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance. — Italo Svevo
I was really suffering from my resolutions much more than from my [vices]. I ought to try and cure myself without making any resolutions. According to him my personality in the course of years had become divided in two, one of which gave orders while the other was only a slave which, directly when the supervision was relaxed, disobeyed the master's orders out of sheer love of liberty. So what I ought to do was to give it absolute freedom and at the same time look my vice in the face as if it was something new and I were meeting it for the first time. I must not fight it, I must forget it, and treat it with complete indifference, turning my back on it as if it were not worthy to keep me company. — Italo Svevo
Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish. — Italo Svevo
And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full of conflicting sounds, of line and color and living, burning light that they never become tedious. — Italo Svevo
The fancies of wine are authentic events. — Italo Svevo
I wanted again May roses in December. I — Italo Svevo
True religion, indeed, is that which does not have to be avowed in order to provide the solace that at times ... if only rarely ... you cannot do without. — Italo Svevo
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . — Italo Svevo
You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide. — Italo Svevo
It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent. — Italo Svevo
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 — Italo Svevo