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but now I’ll change

[...] I’m so limited, I can only concentrate on one thing at a time, excluding everything else. But now I’ll change. Right after this boring dinner I’ll drag Nino with me, I’ll make him walk all night, I’ll ask him what books I should read, what films I should see, what music I should listen to. An…

—p.39 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels, #3) by Elena Ferrante
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she doesn’t know how to submit to reality

He made a grimace of displeasure and said: “Lina is brave, even too brave. But she doesn’t know how to submit to reality, she’s incapable of accepting others and herself. Loving her was a difficult experience.”

—p.36 by Elena Ferrante
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the contradictions of being in the world

[...] Franco, Pietro, all the best students, and of course the renowned teachers at the Normale expressed themselves in a complex manner: they wrote with deliberate artifice, they had an ability to classify, a logical lucidity, that Professor Galiani didn’t possess. But I had trained myself to be l…

—p.30 by Elena Ferrante
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her voice, as it tried to erase San Giovanni

[...] She had said that he wanted to study computers, and that she was trying to help him. I still remember her voice, as it tried to erase San Giovanni, the salami, the odor of the factory, her situation, by citing with false expertise abbreviations like: Cybernetics Center of the State University…

—p.27 by Elena Ferrante
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