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Gli anni della leggerezza

by Elizabeth Jane Howard

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Aug 18, 2026 05:04AM

“He took a sip of my father’s weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit’s like making love in a canoe."
"Excuse me?"
"It’s fucking near water.”
― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

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“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

tags: aliens, closed-mindedness, discovery, humanity, ignorance, mankind, narrow-mindedness, self-discovery, space-exploration

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“I confess that I am often lost in all the dimensions of time, that the past sometimes feels nearer than the present and I often fear the future has already happened.”
― Deborah Levy, Hot Milk

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“Mai rifiutarsi di vedere i lati sgradevoli della vita; non conoscendoli la realtà li ingigantisce nella fantasia trasformandoli in incubi incontrollabili.”
― Goliarda Sapienza, L'arte della gioia

tags: arte, gioia, goliarda, sapienza

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“That was what I knew for sure, that this was the only way to get someone to listen to a woman—to tell her story through a man; Trojan horse yourself into a man, and people would give a shit about you.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble

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