Quote by: Curzio Malaparte

There is a profound difference between fighting to avoid death and fighting in order to live. Men who fight to avoid death preserve their dignity and one and all - men, women and children - defend it jealously, tenaciously, fiercely...When men fight to avoid death they cling with a tenacity born of desperation to all that constitutes the living and eternal part of human life, the essence, the noblest and purest element of life: dignity, pride, freedom of conscience. They fight to save their souls. But after the liberation men had to fight ...It is a humiliating, horrible thing, a shameful necessity, a fight for life. Only for life. Only to save one's skin.


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Author Bio


  • NameCurzio Malaparte
  • DescriptionItalian writer
  • BornJune 9, 1898
  • DiedJuly 19, 1957
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Journalist; Diplomat; Writer; Reporter; Novelist; Essayist; Playwright