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Elena Ferrante
“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”
Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante
“Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.”
Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante
“He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.”
Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

Pema Chödrön
“Scrambling for security has never brought anything but momentary joy.”
Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

Karl Ove Knausgård
“For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.”
Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1

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