Natalia Ginzburg
Natalia Ginzburg
Natalia Ginzburg née Leviwas an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth14 July 1916
CountryItaly
caution children contempt courage desire generosity great success taught thrift virtues
Children 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 a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.
fate men today
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.
made ill rate
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials
england looks surprise
But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.
money defense fragility
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.
two clothes imagination
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.
money being-free concerned
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.
moving people parent
And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.
country people soul
England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.
forever gone realizing
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.
justice silence illness
Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.
thinking rivers
I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
adults adolescence
We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.
dream regret reality
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.