Italo Svevo Quotes

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

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

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

The fancies of wine are authentic events.