Italo Svevo Quotes

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

    Life   Pain   Suffering  
  • 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

    Strong   Fear   Believe  
  • You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

    Eye   Wide  
    Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.91, Vintage
  • The fancies of wine are authentic events.

    Wine   Events   Fancy  
    Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.231, Vintage
  • Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

    Mirrors   People   Sick  
    Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.163, Vintage
  • Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

    Fear   Fate   Tears  
  • Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

    Past   Gains   Remember  
    Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.83, Vintage
  • Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

    Italo Svevo (1969). “Further Confessions of Zeno”, p.126, Univ of California Press
  • There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

    Italo Svevo (1969). “Essays on Italo Svevo”
  • A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.

  • 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.

    Fear   Museums   Light  
  • Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

    Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.83, Vintage
  • To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

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

    Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.12, Vintage
  • The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

  • 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.

    Fear   Past   Men  
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