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“I poured my soul into the dust by loving a man who was soon to die, as if he would live forever.”
― Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of Saint Augustine: Books I-X

“The whole future---I thought---will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

“I'm dead, but I'm fine.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter

“Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. I remember the dialect on my mother’s lips when she lost that gentle cadence and yelled at us, poisoned by her unhappiness: I can’t take you anymore, I can’t take any more.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter