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Don’t want this to end but also need to know what happens

I read this 5 years ago and I hate that it’s still as relevant as it was then. Decided to pick up to re-read and see what I think now

“But even thoughts, insubstantial as they seem, need a footing, or they begin to spin, run in frenzied circles; they can’t bear nothingness either.”

“The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.”

I read this when I was 16 and don’t think I fully appreciated it, so reading it again

So many references that I find myself searching things up every few pages, but I’m enjoying so far. Unlike anything I’ve read before

“I swiftly accepted the notion of God. It pleased me to imagine a presence above us, in continual motion, like liquid stars.”

“This is the most I think we can hope for from novels: not the dawning of knowledge, but the exposure of its limit. To realize you have been wrong about something is, I believe to experience the otherness of the world coming at you. It is to be thrown off-center.”

This is absolutely incredible

Big Pharma can eff

Man, Elena Ferrante is in a league of her own

Wow that was a wild New Year’s Eve