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  • #1
    Vasco Pratolini
    “«Io ho pochissimi amici, forse nessuno di veramente intimo. Ho delle conoscenze, dei ragazzi e delle ragazze come me, la mia amica che ti parlò ieri al telefono, per esempio, con i quali scherzo, ballo, studio, faccio i pettegolezzi, ci scambiamo le idee, facciamo gli scemi e le persone serie a seconda delle circostanze, ma dentro, dentro è diverso. Ci sono dei tasti che toccati una volta per conoscersi quali siamo, non si toccano più, non si va a fondo. Si resta amici, ma si sa che certi argomenti non si debbono più toccare. Ci si sopporta e stima a vicenda. Papà diceva: ci si aiuta a vivere. Guai se così non fosse. Ma l'amicizia, diceva papà, l'amicizia vera è un sentimento forte. È un volersi bene spietato, un guardarsi continuamente negli occhi...»”
    Vasco Pratolini, Un eroe del nostro tempo

  • #2
    Elsa Morante
    “Un sangue-misto di rado si trova contento in compagnia: c'è sempre qualcosa che gli fa ombra , ma in realtà è lui che si fa ombra da se stesso, come il ladro e il tesoro, che si fanno ombra uno con l'altro”
    Elsa Morante, L'isola di Arturo

  • #3
    Don DeLillo
    “Non chiamai Marion. Provai un senso di solitudine, in mancanza di parole migliori, ma in effetti è la parola giusta, una cosa a cui ho sempre cercato di oppormi e da cui sapevo come uscire, ma talvolta anche questo non bastava, e non la chiamai perché non volevo arrendermi, guardando la notte che scendeva.”
    Don DeLillo, Underworld

  • #4
    Sherwood Anderson
    “Io sono uno che ama e non ho trovato la cosa da amare.”
    Sherwood Anderson

  • #5
    Sally Rooney
    “Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
    Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

  • #6
    Sally Rooney
    “I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful.”
    Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

  • #7
    Sally Rooney
    “I liked to sit in the library to write essays, allowing my sense of time and personal identity to dissolve as the light dimmed outside the windows.”
    Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

  • #8
    Sally Rooney
    “I laughed to myself although there was no one there to see me. I loved when he was available to me like this, when our relationship was like a Word document that we were writing and editing together, or a long private joke that nobody else could understand. I liked to feel that he was my collaborator. I liked to think of him waking up at night and thinking of me.”
    Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

  • #9
    Sally Rooney
    “I had no achievements or possessions that proved I was a serious person.”
    Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

  • #10
    Fleur Jaeggy
    “I still thought that to get something you had to go straight for your goal whereas it is only distractions, uncertainty, distance that bring us closer to our targets, and then it is the targets which strike us.”
    Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline

  • #11
    Fleur Jaeggy
    “Inside, a mother superior, ethereal, delicate, who took me under her wing. She caressed me with her slender, soft hands, she sat next to me as if I were a friend. One day she disappeared. In her place arrived a buxom Swiss from Canton Uri. It's common knowledge that a new leader will hate the predecessors' favourites. A boarding school is like a harem.”
    Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline



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