About Alberto Moravia: Alberto Moravia was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism.
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.
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]
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.
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.
This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.
I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces a foe one can't defeat and I felt liberated.
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
