Status Updates From Noi e la morte di Stella

“And I fear nothing more than the day when I will forget that everything was once different.”

“No one is a stricter guardian of morality than the secret lawbreaker, for it is clear to them that humanity would crumble and perish if everyone lived as they did.”

“No one is a stricter guardian of morality than the secret lawbreaker, for it is clear to them that humanity would crumble and perish if everyone lived as they did.”

“Stella, still loved in the damp earth, and held by a hundred little root fingers, how much more definitively dead am I than you!”

“We have cause for gratitude. How embarrassing it would have been had she taken sleeping pills or thrown herself out of a window. Her elegance, which was an elegance of the heart, showed itself in the manner of her death, giving us all the opportunity to believe in a meaningless accident.”

and in the end he will stand by a window like me, filled with dull grief over things half-forgotten and never known. A tall man, somewhat too gaunt, with thoughtful gray eyes and nervous hands, lighting one cigarette after another and stubbing them out, helpless as I am, as my father was, and that remote ancestor who was the first to sense the ticking of unease and stepped to the window of his cottage.

I get bored when I’m supposed to involve myself in other people’s affairs—I find it repellent to the depths of my soul.