Elsa Morante Quotes

I'm going to cover the whole world like it was a neighborhood, and in airplanes and raing cars, not on foot!

Elsa Morante

• Neighborhood
• Cover
• Airplanes

In the end, of the one thousand fifty-six who had left, in a body, from the Tiburtina station, a total of fifteen came back alive. And of those dead, the luckiest were surely the first eight hundred and fifty. The gas chamber is the only seat of charity, in a concentration camp.

Elsa Morante

• Charity
• Alive
• Chamber

Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages to live. And without it, he would sink into madness.

Elsa Morante

• Childhood
• Individual
• Madness

So much of the news was invented for propaganda.

Elsa Morante

• News
• Propaganda

It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told.

Elsa Morante

• Facts
• Matters
• Occur