Italo Svevo > Quotes

“Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility. ”
― Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

“It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent. ”
― Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

“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

“The fancies of wine are authentic events.”
― Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

“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, Zeno's Conscience

“... 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, Zeno's Conscience

“Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish. ”
― Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

“You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide. ”
― Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

“Yoksa ben sigaraya kendi yeteneksizliğimin ayıbını yükleyebilmek için mi öylesine tutkundum? acaba sigara alışkanlığımdan vazgeçsem o umduğum güçlü, üstün adam olur muydum? belki beni tiryakiliğime zincirleyen de o kuşku olmuştur, çünkü insanın kendisini gizli kalmış bir büyük adam sanması rahat bir yaşam biçimidir.”
― Italo Svevo