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Marguerite Yourcenar
“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.”
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

Marguerite Yourcenar
“Che cos'è l'insonnia se non la maniaca ostinazione della nostra mente a fabbricare pensieri, ragionamenti, sillogismi e definizioni tutte sue, il suo rifiuto di abdicare di fronte alla divina incoscienza degli occhi chiusi o alla saggia follia dei sogni? L'uomo che non dorme - da qualche mese a questa parte ho fin troppe occasioni di constatarlo su me stesso - si rifiuta più o meno consapevolmente di affidarsi al flusso delle cose.”
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memorie di Adriano: La voce dell'imperatore

Milan Kundera
“She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Agatha Christie
“What a lot of funny people it does take to make a world.”
Agatha Christie, The Secret of Chimneys

Georges Perec
“Ne plus rien vouloir. Attendre jusqu'à ce qu'il n'y ait plus rien à attendre. [...] Ce sera devant toi, au fil du temps, une vie immobile, sans crise, sans désordre : nulle aspérité, nul déséquilibre. Minute après minute, heure après heure, jour après jour, saison après saison [...]”
Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort

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