Tag: Natalia Ginzburg
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‘He always feels hot, I always feel cold. In the summer when it really is hot he does nothing but complain about how hot he feels. He is irritated if he sees me put a jumper on in the evening. He speaks several languages well; I do not speak any well. He manages – in…
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‘Everyone looks in his own way for something that will cure the silence, the feeling of guilt, the feeling of panic. Some people travel. In their anxiety to see new countries and new people there is the hope that they will leave behind their own obscure ghosts; there is the secret hope that somewhere on…
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‘In my life there have been interminable, desolate empty Sundays in which I desperately wanted to write something that would console me for my loneliness and boredom, so that I could be calmed and soothed by phrases and words. But I could not write a single line. My vocation has always rejected me, it does…
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‘To be honest I don’t know many countries, but I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world… …Every place where the English gather to chat to one another exudes melancholy. Indeed, nothing in the world is sadder than an English conversation, in which everyone is careful to keep to…
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‘Now and again my friend says she is fed up of working and wants to let her life go to pieces. She wants to shut herself in some filthy bar and drink all her life savings, or she will just stay in bed and think of nothing and leave everything to drift, and let them…
Roseena Veronika Hussain 