Natalia Ginzburg Quotes

• As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

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  Love, Success, Education

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• No adultery is bloodless.

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  Infidelidad, Adulterio

  Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The City and the House: A Novel”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

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  Thinking, Rivers

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• Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

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  Fate, Men, Today

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.72, Arcade Publishing

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• Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

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  Justicia, diversidad, silencio

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.72, Arcade Publishing

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• El curso de nuestras vidas sigue leyes antiguas e inmutables, con un ritmo ancestral e inmutable. Los sueños nunca se hacen realidad, y en el instante en que se rompen, nos damos cuenta de cómo las mayores alegrías de la vida se encuentran más allá del reino de la realidad. En el instante en que se hacen añicos, nos sentimos enfermos de añoranza por los días en que ardían en nuestro interior. Nuestro destino se gasta en esta sucesión de esperanza y nostalgia.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Dream, Lying, Fate

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• But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

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  Forever, Gone, Realizing

  Natalia Ginzburg, Cesare Garboli, Lisa Ginzburg, Marino Sinibaldi (2003). “It's Hard to Talk about Yourself”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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• Over my real sorrows I never weep.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Real, Sorrow

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• Italia es un país dispuesto a someterse a los peores gobiernos. Es, como sabemos, un país gobernado por el desorden, el cinismo, la incompetencia y la confusión. Sin embargo, somos conscientes de que la inteligencia circula por las calles como una vívida corriente sanguínea.

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  Country, Government, Confusion

  Natalia Ginzburg (2017). “The Little Virtues: Essays”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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• As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.

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  Sueño, Arrepentimiento, Realidad

  Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The Little Virtues”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

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  Regret, Feelings, Complexes

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• My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

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  Country, Children, Wall

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• You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials

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  Made, Ill, Rate

  Natalia Ginzburg (1989). “Family Sayings”, p.98, Arcade Publishing

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• When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

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  Country, Children, Wall

  Natalia Ginzburg (2017). “The Little Virtues: Essays”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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• We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

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  Adults, Adolescence

  Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The Little Virtues”, p.76, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

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  Moving, People, Parent

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.51, Arcade Publishing

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• Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

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  Money, Being Free, Concerned

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.102, Arcade Publishing

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• I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

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  Country, World, England

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.21, Arcade Publishing

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• The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Money, Defense, Fragility

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• England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.

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  Country, People, Soul

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.28, Arcade Publishing

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• The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafés.

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  Two, Clothes, Imagination

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.24, Arcade Publishing

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• But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

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  Looks, England, Surprise

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.24, Arcade Publishing

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