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"Questo libro sta colmando il vuoto a forma di Sally Rooney che ho nel cuore" — Aug 21, 2023 02:09PM
"Questo libro sta colmando il vuoto a forma di Sally Rooney che ho nel cuore" — Aug 21, 2023 02:09PM
“Death has worn you smooth as a stone.”
― Everything Under
― Everything Under
“That is what abuse is:
knowing you are
going to get salt
but still hoping for sugar
for nineteen years.”
― The Princess Saves Herself in This One
knowing you are
going to get salt
but still hoping for sugar
for nineteen years.”
― The Princess Saves Herself in This One
“Romantic obsession is my first language. I live in a world of fantasies, infatuations and love poems. Sometimes I wonder if the yearning I’ve felt for others was more of a yearning for yearning itself. I’ve pined insatiably and repeatedly: for strangers, new lovers, unrequited flames. While the subjects changed, that feeling always remained. Perhaps, then, I have not been so infatuated with the people themselves, but with the act of longing.
from “Life without Longing,” The New York Times (9 February 2019)”
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from “Life without Longing,” The New York Times (9 February 2019)”
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“And these nights were being acted out under a foreign sky, with no one to watch, no penalties attached—it was this last fact which was our undoing for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom. I suppose this was why I asked her to marry me: to give myself something to be moored to. Perhaps this was why, in Spain, she decided that she wanted to marry me. But people can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
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