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.
infidelity adultery
No adultery is bloodless.
adults adolescence
We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.
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.
made ill rate
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials