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the hardest things to talk about
My friends from Florence came, Bianca and Marta returned, a…
your life wants to become another’s
[...] I had wanted Bianca, one wants a child with an animal…
I was so desolate in those years
I was so desolate in those years. I could no longer study, …
my way of soothing myself
I saw her fly toward the asphalt and felt a cruel joy. She …
I wanted to keep the body I was accustomed to
Yet I began to pay more attention to myself, as if I wanted…
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p.35
sententia »
a brief moral saying taken from ancient or popula…
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she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own
[...] She loved him, she loved him like the girls in the ph…
I will ruin that beautiful face of yours
He said, more or less, “We haven’t been wrong about anythin…
this glittering zero I’ve stuck my finger in
They ordered all kinds of things, ate almost nothing, drank…
the stranger who waited for her outside
Lila didn’t doubt that he would have been capable of it—the…
Lila was absent
[...] He now had his hands free and leaning over her he sla…
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p.82
peremptory »
(adjective) putting an end to or precluding a rig…
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her voice, as it tried to erase San Giovanni
[...] She had said that he wanted to study computers, and t…
the contradictions of being in the world
[...] Franco, Pietro, all the best students, and of course …
she doesn’t know how to submit to reality
He made a grimace of displeasure and said: “Lina is brave, …
but now I’ll change
[...] I’m so limited, I can only concentrate on one thing a…
what we do not speak of even to ourselves
[...] The first questions were all about the struggles of t…
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p.226
karstic »
(noun) an irregular limestone region with sinkhol…
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I felt the limitations of my outlook
[...] I had been out of Italy once, in Paris, with Franco, …
a natural ability to transform small private events
I was very tired, and paid less and less attention to my ap…
every possible social-democratic accommodation collapses
[...] I, on the other hand, in those French days, felt that…
at times I felt the need to say something truer
On the evenings when I talked about my book in foreign citi…
a good rule not to expect the ideal
[...] Throw him out, I repeated, when Nino tried to come ne…
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p.276
peremptory »
(adjective) putting an end to or precluding a rig…
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becoming a person who could earn his respect
[...] In church I'd thought I couldn't live without him, bu…
everything seemed to have a secret depth
[...] I was amazed by a gesture, a look, the expression on …
God isn't easy
"God isn't easy." "He should think about becoming easy, …
to feel free from all the old bonds
I also reduced to a minimum my relations with my mother. I …