A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.

- Italo Svevo

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

- Italo Svevo

And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full of conflicting sounds…

- Italo Svevo

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their …

- Italo Svevo

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

- Italo Svevo

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

- Italo Svevo

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

- Italo Svevo

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

- Italo Svevo

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

- Italo Svevo