Leonardo Sciascia Quotes

#1. I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

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#2. ... And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.

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#3. All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

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#4. The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

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#5. Dear Commendatory Roomers, you have no idea how many people-serious, decently behaved, cultivated people- go looking for the company of whores

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#6. Translation is the other side of a tapestry.

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#7. Maybe the whole of italy is becoming a sort of Sicily.

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#8. A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

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#9. It's like squeezing tripe: nothing comes out,' he said, meaning the Colasberna brothers, their partners, the town in general and Sicily as a whole.

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#10. Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions

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