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What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken.

— Natalia Ginzburg Le piccole virtù (1962)

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But it was incredible how fear and danger never produced ignoble words but always true ones, words that were torn from your very heart.

Tutti i nostri ieri (1952)

Style is not something that can be improvised: one has to construct it, to make it.

Interview (1992)

A journalist recently said in the newspapers that writers should keep their mouths shut as much as possible and I think he was probably right. Better to write than to speak.

Interview (1992)

Every time I sit down to write a book I feel that I have to start from zero, that I have to re-learn how to write.

Interview (1992)

Human relationships have to be rediscovered every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbor is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin.

Le piccole virtù (1962)

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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