“I'm dead, but I'm fine”
― The Lost Daughter
― The Lost Daughter
“The whole future---I thought---will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning.”
― The Days of Abandonment
― The Days of Abandonment
“Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision.”
― The Days of Abandonment
― The Days of Abandonment
“I'm dead, but I'm fine.”
― The Lost Daughter
― The Lost Daughter
“Life can have an ironic geometry. Starting from the age of thirteen or fourteen I had aspired to a bourgeois decorum, proper Italian, a good life, cultured and reflective. Naples had seemed a wave that would drown me. I didn’t think the city could contain life forms different from those I had known as a child, violent or sensually lazy, tinged with sentimental vulgarity or obtusely fortified in defense of their own wretched degradation.”
― The Lost Daughter
― The Lost Daughter
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