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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels, #3)

by Elena Ferrante

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Feb 16, 2026 09:16AM

“All were gloomy and silent. Ivan Ilych felt that he had diffused this gloom over them and could not dispel it. They had supper and went away, and Ivan Ilych was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and that this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

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“Later on, meditating in solitude on that look—which expressed his right to freedom—she, as usual, came only to a consciousness of her own humiliation.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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“I try to assess the things that bring me pleasure, and how those things might bring me a fulfilling career. I think about how I spend my time. Where my interests lie. The questions come naturally, as if supplied by the ether, and the answer sits in my empty skull: nothing, nothing, nothing.”
― Halle Butler, The New Me

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“I'd never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I always had to wait until it was ripe and mature and fell from me.”
― Marlen Haushofer, The Wall

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“And he’d figured out that the fun was often not the thing itself—the party, the keg stand, the naked running into the duck pond—but the endless talking about it after, the reliving and describing, and laughing about it in front of people who wished they’d been there. Used to be he was one of the kids listening, one of the kids who missed everything, but now, since college, since Kate, he was in the stories.”
― Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes

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