Top 15 Sciascia Quotes
#1. 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
Leonardo Sciascia
#2. For German Social Democracy, Europe is vital to the national interest.
Martin Schulz
#3. 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.
Leonardo Sciascia
#4. ... 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.
Leonardo Sciascia
#6. And try as I might, I am having difficulty giving a f**k.
Jon Stewart
#7. She was some kind of woman, he resolved, one that wasn't for him. He had failed to break her.
Dew Platt
#8. Dear Commendatory Roomers, you have no idea how many people-serious, decently behaved, cultivated people- go looking for the company of whores
Leonardo Sciascia
#10. The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
Madame De Stael
#12. 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.
Leonardo Sciascia
#13. To settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay - that
Ayn Rand
#14. 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.
Leonardo Sciascia
#15. Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions
Leonardo Sciascia
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