“Fearful people see danger in everything; they practically invent dangers in order to intensify the pleasure of avoiding them. All in vain too, because the fear is born on the inside.”
“Excess reveals lies; truth doesn’t want superlatives.”
“Only prayer can interrupt the solitude of dying.”
“To challenge one’s limits as an end to itself derives from the fear of accepting one’s limits. Never before as in this age has pushing beyond one’s limits constituted an escape from recognizing them.”
“For a writer, evil is a saving grace and good is a curse…To speak well of good is unforgivable.”
Giuseppe Pontiggia
Writer
Giuseppe Pontiggia was an Italian writer and literary critic. He was born in Como, and moved to Milan with his family in 1948. In 1959 he graduated from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a thesis on Italo Svevo. Wikipedia
Died: June 27, 2003
Awards: Strega Prize
Source: “Born Twice” by Giuseppe Pontiggia
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