Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Alberto Moravia, Pen name of Alberto Pincherle

Italian Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Essayist

"Modern man - whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone - can never for one moment forget that he is living in a world in which he is a means and whose end is not his business."

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."

"Life is a short day; but it is a working day. Activity may lead to evil, but inactivity cannot lead to good."