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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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what type of woman I could become

But how did I want to be? When I thought of her, once I was an adult, once I was far away, I sought a means of understanding what type of woman I could become. I wanted to be beautiful, but how? Was it possible that you necessarily had to choose between dullness and ostentation? Don’t both paths le…

—p.167 Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey TESSERAE: 2003-2007 (163) by Elena Ferrante
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dresses worn by movie stars

She copied them from dresses worn by movie stars, princesses, from the models of fashion designers. But she had the gift of remaking them so that on her they seemed more charged with energy. My mother never sewed a dress for herself that didn’t make her appear an extraordinary woman. Whereas at hom…

—p.159 PAPERS: 1991-2003 (1) by Elena Ferrante
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the pleasure of slight flirtations

In bed now, in the vast marriage bed, I said to myself that if I wanted to understand why Mario had left me I should think back to the pleasure of slight flirtations like that, with no consequences, a harmless, frivolous pleasure that lightened the days. Maybe for him, too, it had begun like that, …

—p.130 PAPERS: 1991-2003 (1) by Elena Ferrante
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thaumaturgy

Is it therapy, is it thaumaturgy?

—p.122 PAPERS: 1991-2003 (1) by Elena Ferrante
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not to be overcome but to be redeemed

[...] I was afraid that there was a break between the before—archaic models and myths, precisely—and the after, Olga the new woman, and that Olga would seem to be an expression of the progressive fates of the female gender. I decided instead to deepen the confusion of time, as in Troubling Love, wh…

—p.107 PAPERS: 1991-2003 (1) by Elena Ferrante