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Apparently I am reading this series out of sequence. This installment explains a lot about Ricciardi's early life, his affliction (the curse of seeing the recently dead and hearing their final thoughts), his family, and his complicated non-relationsh
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“Lo sai che penso? Che è facile stare insieme quando va tutto bene. Il difficile è quando si devono superare le montagne, fa freddo e tira vento. Allora, forse, per trovare calore, uno si deve fare un poco più vicino. Te lo dice uno che campa nel freddo. E che non ha nessuno per trovare calore.”
― La condanna del sangue: La primavera del commissario Ricciardi
― La condanna del sangue: La primavera del commissario Ricciardi
“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“I thought of an old poker players’ expression: If you look around the table and can’t spot the sucker, the sucker is you.”
― A Lonely Resurrection
― A Lonely Resurrection
“tucked into the 2012 Farm Bill was a clause indemnifying Monsanto if the use of their products happens to mess up someone’s land.”
― Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
― Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
“In dying, he now realized, you do not encounter death at all, for you are gone before it gets there.”
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
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