Alberto Moravia: "Our ideals, laws, and customs should…"

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“We all have a contract with reality that’s bound by trust; the less realistic our ideals...”

Alberto Moravia

“We are everlastingly in the world of objects; worse than that, we are objectified in objec...”

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