The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. Leonardo Sciascia More Quotes by Leonardo Sciascia More Quotes From Leonardo Sciascia 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 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 stupidity regret nice 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
