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September 14, 2024
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September 14, 2024
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September 15, 2024
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25.69%
"I remembered when she told the rest of us about the murder, and the blood on the copper pot, and claimed that the killer of Don Achille was not a man but a woman, as if, in the story she was telling us, she had heard and seen the form of a female body break, from the need for hatred, the urgency for revenge or justice, and lose its substance."
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"“You remember our bet?”
I nodded yes.
“You remember that you lost?”
I nodded yes.
“You remember that you now have to pass with the best grades?”
I nodded yes.
She pointed to two large packages tied up in wrapping paper. In them were the school books."
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I nodded yes.
“You remember that you lost?”
I nodded yes.
“You remember that you now have to pass with the best grades?”
I nodded yes.
She pointed to two large packages tied up in wrapping paper. In them were the school books."
September 16, 2024
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"As he spoke I heard clearly the ridiculousness of his trained voice, the crudeness of his poeticizing, the sleazy lyricizing behind which he concealed his eagerness to put his hands on me. But I thought: Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity"
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September 16, 2024
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"I felt that if the excessive violence he repressed behind his polite manners and his meek face terrified me, I now couldn’t bear her courage, that audacious impudence that allowed her to cry out the truth as if it were a lie"
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September 16, 2024
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"A little later the professor came up to me in the hallway, and talked for a long time about a kind of college in Pisa, where, if you passed an exam like the one I had already done, you studied free.
“If you come back here in a couple of days, I’ll give you all the necessary information.”
I listened, but the way you do when someone is talking to you about something that will never really concern you."
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“If you come back here in a couple of days, I’ll give you all the necessary information.”
I listened, but the way you do when someone is talking to you about something that will never really concern you."
September 16, 2024
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"Yes, it’s Lila who makes writing difficult. My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck"
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"nyone who wanted to know what gave it warmth and what the origin was of the strong but invisible thread that joined the sentences would have had to go back to that child’s packet, ten notebook pages, the rusty pin, the brightly colored cover, the title, and not even a signature.
This part broke me"
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This part broke me"
September 16, 2024
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"“I was an arrogant child,” she muttered.
I quickly contradicted her.
“The story is still beautiful today,” I said. “I read it again and discovered that, without realizing it, I’ve always had it in my mind. That’s where my book comes from.”
“From this nonsense?” she laughed loudly, nervously. “Then whoever printed it is crazy.”"
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I quickly contradicted her.
“The story is still beautiful today,” I said. “I read it again and discovered that, without realizing it, I’ve always had it in my mind. That’s where my book comes from.”
“From this nonsense?” she laughed loudly, nervously. “Then whoever printed it is crazy.”"
September 16, 2024
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"I saw her standing beside the bonfire, without the shape of a woman in that outfit, as she leafed through the pages of the Blue Fairy. Suddenly she threw it on the fire."
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