“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” IfsKnowsMenShouldBelieveAbleLife IsStrongGivenFearPerfectDoubtAtheismGreatnessBoundsVicesRageSmokingGiven UpLatentPerfect Man Author:Italo Svevo
“To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.” FearAtheismRageWoundsBetrayManly Author:Italo Svevo
“Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.” FearFateAtheismTearsFaultsRageContradictionVeils Author: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.” MenImportantWholeLastsPastRememberFearGreaterAtheismDyingSpreadRageWhole LifeDeliriumVividness Author: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.” LightSeemsFearSoundLinesAtheismColorWorthyRageBurningMuseumsTediousFramedMonotony Author:Italo Svevo
