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The Skin

by Curzio Malaparte

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"I've discovered a new genre - squalor porn. Malaparte's descriptions of Naples after the Italians surrendered to the Allies in 1943 revel in it." — 7 hours, 47 min ago

Aug 28, 2026 06:56AM

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“One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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