A preached immorality is more to be punished than an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate; you propogandize murder only through wickedness.
--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.
--Italo Svevo
Healthy love is the love that embraces a single, whole woman, including her character and her intelligence.
--Italo Svevo
In business, theory is useful, but it can be utilized only after the deal has been made.
--Italo Svevo
In the mind of a young man from a middle-class family, the concept of human life is associated with that of a career, and in early youth the career is that of Napoleon I.
--Italo Svevo
It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.
--Italo Svevo
Life is neither ugly nor beautiful, but it's original!
--Italo Svevo
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
--Italo Svevo
There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.
--Italo Svevo
There is only one great regret: not having acted in one's own best interest.
--Italo Svevo
There's no need for a man to know how to work, but if he doesn't know how to make others work, he is doomed.
--Italo Svevo
To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.
--Italo Svevo
When a man dies, he has too many other worries to allow any thinking about death.
--Italo Svevo
You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
--Italo Svevo
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