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The Story of a New Name (2012)
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Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
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Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.
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Things without meaning are the most beautiful ones.
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Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.
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There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Elena Ferrante
Born:
1943
(age 81)
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