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Elsa Morante
“Attraverso i suoi molti peccati, Teodoro non ismentí mai, però, il suo carattere precipuo: una generosità avventata e cavalleresca, la quale, malgrado la sua frivolezza in amore, gli meritava il perdono e, in certi casi, fin la gratitudine, delle sue stesse vittime. Con grandiosità senza pari, egli si spendeva tutto intero in ogni avventura, anche nelle piú effimere: se amava una donna, foss’anche per un sol giorno, per la durata di questo giorno era il suo schiavo, ed era capace di commettere ogni sorta di vistose e costose follie per una fiamma passeggera ed esigua. Inoltre, egli possedeva il dono delle parole, e, di piú, il dono di credere in esse: grazie al magico uso d’un vocabolario poetico, romanzesco, e, badate bene, sincero, egli trasmutava, nel concetto suo proprio e in quello delle credule amanti, una comune tresca in una tragedia. E nessuna delle sue amanti (qualsiasi fossero stati le amarezze e gli strazi inflittile, per crudeltà della sorte, da Teodoro), alla fine, almeno, non rimaneva senza l’estrema soddisfazione d’aver vissuto, non già una mediocre avventura, ma un’esperienza magnifica, e d’aver rappresentato una parte sublime.
A Teodoro non piaceva di lasciare alcuno con la bocca amara: e ciò non solo a motivo della sua naturale mitezza, ma anche perché l’ideale amoroso, sul quale egli avrebbe voluto modellarsi, non era di perfidia, ma di cortesia e magnanimità. Egli preferiva di rappresentare dopotutto, e a dispetto, magari, d’ogni verisimiglianza, la parte della vittima; e vi riusciva con tanto successo che si dette il caso d’amanti da lui tradite, disonorate e abbandonate che s’impietosirono meno sulla propria sorte che sulla sua.”
Elsa Morante, Menzogna e sortilegio

Elena Ferrante
“Evocai versi e romanzi come tranquillanti. Forse, pensai, aver studiato mi serve solo a questo: a calmarmi.”
Elena Ferrante, Storia del nuovo cognome

James R. Doty
“It's the same with the wounds in our heart. We need to give them our attention so that they can heal. Otherwise the wound continues to cause us pain. Sometimes for a very long time. We're all going to get hurt. That's just the way it is. But here's the trick about the things that hurt us and cause us pain–they also serve an amazing purpose. When our hearts are wounded that's when they open. We grow through pain. We grow through difficult situations. That's why you have to embrace each and every difficult thing in your life.”
James R. Doty, Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

Elena Ferrante
“The frantumaglia is an unstable landscape, an infinite aerial or aquatic mass of debris that appears to the I, brutally, as its true and unique inner self. The frantumaglia is the storehouse of time without the orderliness of a history, a story. The frantumaglia is an effect of the sense of loss, when we’re sure that everything that seems to us stable, lasting, an anchor for our life, will soon join that landscape of debris that we seem to see. The frantumaglia is to perceive with excruciating anguish the heterogeneous crowd from which we, living, raise our voice, and the heterogeneous crowd into which it is fated to vanish.”
Elena Ferrante, La frantumaglia

Michael S. Gazzaniga
“Just before I left for Long Island and my new life, I got another call, this one from Dr. Ernest Sachs, up at Dartmouth Medical School. He was head of neurology at the time, and he invited me up to give a lecture. I was thrilled. I was to play the role of professor at my old alma mater! It was especially sweet because the very same medical school had rejected my application eleven years earlier, even though I was an undergraduate at Dartmouth and my brother was one of their stellar graduates. It is events like this in one’s past that fall off the story line. What if I had been accepted and gone? There would have been no split-brain work for me. How would that whole story have been different? I believe that things just happen in life, and pretty much after the fact, we make up a story to make it all seem rational. We all like simple stories that suggest a causal chain to life’s events. Yet randomness is ever present.”
Michael S. Gazzaniga, Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience

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