Author: Leonardo Sciascia

Cites

• Edgar Allan Poe (1)
  • IN: To Each His Own (1968) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Let it not be supposed that I am detailing any mystery, or penning any romance.
    FROM: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, (1841), Short story, US
• Montaigne (1)
  • IN: Equal Danger (1971) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: One must do as the animals do, who erase every footprint in front of their lair.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Rousseau (1)
  • IN: Equal Danger (1971) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: O Montaigne! You who pride yourself on your candor and truthfulness, be sincere and truthful, if a philosopher can be so, and tell me whether there exists on earth a country where it is a crime to keep one's given word and to be clement and generous, where the good man is despised and the wicked man honored.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Geneva, Switzerland
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Equal Danger (1971) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: O Rousseau!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: The Day of the Owl (1961) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: And he that will not fight for such a hope Go home to bed, and like the owl by day If he arise, be mocked and wondered at.
    FROM: Henry VI, Part III, (1623), Play, UK
• Courier (1)
  • IN: The Council of Egypt (1963) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We can see [Sicily] from here, the way you can look from the Tuileries across to the Faubourg Saint-Germain; the Strait - my word, it's scarely any wider than that, and yet we are in difficulties over the crossing. Would you believe it? If all we lacked were a good wind, we could do as Agamemnon did, and sacrifice a young maiden. We have more than enough of them, thank God. But there's not a boat to be had, that's the dilemma. One will be coming in, they say; so long as I have hopes of this, never suppose, Madame, that I will cast a single backward glance toward the country where you live, much as I delight in it. Now I want to see the homeland of Persephone, and discover why the Devil took himself a wife in that country.
    FROM: Lettres de France et d'Italie, (1830), NULL, NULL

Cited by

• Patrizia Rinaldi (1)
  • IN: Three, Imperfect Number (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It's such a simple thing to make love. It's like being thirsty and drinking. Nothing could be simpler than being thirsty and drinking; drenching one's thirst, feeling satisfaction at having done so; no longer feeling thirst. Utterly simple.
    FROM: One Way or Another, (1974), Novel, Italy