A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread. Leonardo Sciascia More Quotes by Leonardo Sciascia More Quotes From Leonardo Sciascia The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. Leonardo Sciascia language sides said The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia Leonardo Sciascia words-of-wisdom moon truth All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination. Leonardo Sciascia dimensions imagination I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it. Leonardo Sciascia hate kind doe
