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“He was burdened, poor Strether—it had better be confessed at the outset—with the oddity of a double consciousness. There was detachment in his zeal and curiosity in his indifference.”
― Henry James, The Ambassadors

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“Modernity, characterized by the diffusion of a written culture, has lost the memory of the oral origins of poetry; this insight is reaffirmed by Leopardi in 1831”
― Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi

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“Oh we're not loved. We're not even hated. We're only just sweetly ignored.”
― Henry James, The Ambassadors

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“Man for Leopardi is first and foremost an animal, and his history is merely the last section of the much more ancient history of all living species, which in their turn are an integral part of the entire ecological system.”
― Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi

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“discussions of the effects of globalization. On the psychological and aesthetic level, Leopardi immediately underscores a crucial point: the ancients do not recognize the notion of the morbid satisfaction in suffering that was introduced by Christianity (Z 2456–57), that is, the withdrawal of the self into the bottomless pit of conscience: that typically modern “vague des passions.”
― Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi

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