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“I had long since realized that each of us organizes memory as it suits him, I’m still surprised when I do it myself. But it surprised me that one could go so far as to give the facts an arrangement that went against one’s own interests.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“I was I and for that very reason I could make space for her in me and give her an enduring form. She”
― The Neapolitan Novels
― The Neapolitan Novels
“Suddenly I felt with shame that I could understand, and excuse, the irritation of Professor Galiani when she saw her daughter on Pasquale’s knees, I understood and excused Nino when, one way or another, he withdrew from Lila, and, why not, I understood and excused Adele when she had had to make the best of things and accept that I would marry her son.”
― The Neapolitan Novels
― The Neapolitan Novels
“She possessed intelligence and didn’t put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches of the world are merely a sign of vulgarity. That was the fact that must have beguiled Nino: the gratuitousness of Lila’s intelligence. She stood out among so many because she, naturally, did not submit to any training, to any use, or to any purpose.”
― The Neapolitan Novels
― The Neapolitan Novels
Adam’s 2025 Year in Books
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