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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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sententia »
a brief moral saying taken from ancient or popula…
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[...] She loved him, she loved him like the girls in the ph…
He said, more or less, “We haven’t been wrong about anythin…
They ordered all kinds of things, ate almost nothing, drank…
Lila didn’t doubt that he would have been capable of it—the…
[...] He now had his hands free and leaning over her he sla…
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peremptory »
(adjective) putting an end to or precluding a rig…
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[...] She had said that he wanted to study computers, and t…
[...] Franco, Pietro, all the best students, and of course …
He made a grimace of displeasure and said: “Lina is brave, …
[...] I’m so limited, I can only concentrate on one thing a…
[...] The first questions were all about the struggles of t…
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karstic »
(noun) an irregular limestone region with sinkhol…
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[...] I had been out of Italy once, in Paris, with Franco, …
I was very tired, and paid less and less attention to my ap…
[...] I, on the other hand, in those French days, felt that…
On the evenings when I talked about my book in foreign citi…
[...] Throw him out, I repeated, when Nino tried to come ne…