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"“It’s always the chest of the other person we lean back against for support, we only really feel supported or backed up when, as the latter verb itself indicates, there’s someone behind us, someone we perhaps cannot even see and who covers our back with their chest, so close it almost brushes our back and in the end always does, and at times, that someone places a hand on our shoulder, a hand to…”
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"“It’s always the chest of the other person we lean back against for support, we only really feel supported or backed up when, as the latter verb itself indicates, there’s someone behind us, someone we perhaps cannot even see and who covers our back with their chest, so close it almost brushes our back and in the end always does, and at times, that someone places a hand on our shoulder, a hand to…”
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"A lot of Leopardi’s poetry is entirely uninteresting if you have no national feeling toward Italy. I’ll probably still finish this, though." — May 07, 2026 11:42AM
"A lot of Leopardi’s poetry is entirely uninteresting if you have no national feeling toward Italy. I’ll probably still finish this, though." — May 07, 2026 11:42AM
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