Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.
Italo SvevoWho knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness
Italo SvevoPain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.
Italo SvevoEveryone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.
Italo Svevo