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“Temo che il senso della vita sia estorcere la felicità a se stessi, tutto il resto è una forma di lusso dell'animo, o di miseria, dipende dai casi.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Una certa idea di mondo

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“I said, "Do you think she thinks it's me?"

Jas said, "Well, it's pretty conclusive, isn't it? She said 'the most sniveling idiot I have ever come across.'"

I said, "I didn't know that YOU have been seeing Masimo. Tom the Slug King is going to be very upset.”
― Louise Rennison, Startled by His Furry Shorts

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“But the Beatles turned out to be one of the things you couldn’t avoid, like alcohol, or death.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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“Here is my recipe for a mood enhancer. Take a friend, preferably one with a really annoying fringe and outsize pants, and when she is rambling on swiftly, push her into a ditch and run away.”
― Louise Rennison, Startled by His Furry Shorts

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