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Preoccupied with the tasks imposed upon him by his ego and the European psyche, overburdened by the obligation to produce, averse to diversion, and no lover of the external world and its variety, he was quite content with the view of the ...more
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Domenico Starnone
“exhausted.”
Domenico Starnone, Trust: A Novel

Jane Gardam
“Because you were loved you’ll know how to love. And you will recognise real love for you.”
Jane Gardam, Last Friends

Domenico Starnone
“had never been capable of adjusting the reality of facts to my advantage, and maybe that’s why I was so exhausted.”
Domenico Starnone, Trust: A Novel

Jane Gardam
“Sometimes, he thought, one should take a long, hard look at old friends. Like old clothes in a cupboard, there comes the moment to examine for moth. Perhaps throw them out and forget them. Yes.”
Jane Gardam, Last Friends

Penelope Fitzgerald
“But there is something else which I have written and which I want to read to you while I still have time,’ Fritz told Karoline. ‘It will not truly exist until you have heard it.’ ‘Is”
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower: A Novel

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With PMs being no longer available, I hope this group will help us with keeping in touch.
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