Leonardo Sciascia Quotes

• The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

  Leonardo Sciascia

  Sides, Language, Said

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• All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

  Leonardo Sciascia

  Imagination, Dimensions

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• The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

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  Truth, Moon, Words Of Wisdom

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• A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

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  Regret, Nice, Stupidity

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• I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

  Leonardo Sciascia

  Hate, Doe, Kind

  Leonardo Sciascia, Marcelle Padovani, James Marcus (1994). “Sicily as metaphor”, Marlboro Pr

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