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Midnights

by Alec Wilkinson

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Sep 07, 2023 05:51AM

“she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

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“Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn鈥檛 agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

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“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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