Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources – and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
About Alberto Moravia
Alberto Pincherle (Italian: [al’berto ‘piNGkerle]; 28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990), known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia (US: moh-RAH-vee-@, -RAY-, Italian: [mo’ra:vja]), was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism.
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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources – and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it’s going to be until I’m under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn’t. But I don’t sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)