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march stills | 🏛 🐈‍⬛️ ☕️ 🎧
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metamorphesque · 7 months
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"to endure!"
vincent van gogh ("trees and undergrowth") robert lowell [How will the heart endure?] vincent van gogh [I must endure bad times and the waters will rise, possibly as high as the lips and possibly even higher, how can I know beforehand? But I’ll fight my fight and sell my life dearly and try to win and pull through.] rainer maria rilke [To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.] joan didion [Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it.] elena ferrante [maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.] elena ferrante [I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.] han kang [The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.] victor frankl [What is to give light must endure burning.]
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flowerytale · 10 months
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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in "A Writer’s Diary" Clarice Lispector, from "A Breath of Life" Patti Smith, from "Devotion" Elena Ferrante, from "Incidental Inventions" Marguerite Duras, from "Écrire"
Jane Austen’s writing table at Chawton Cottage, Hampshire Charlotte Brontë's writing desk on display at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England Virginia Woolf's writing desk in her writing lodge at Monk's House in Rodmell, Sussex Reconstruction of Daphne du Maurier's study at the Smugglers Museum, Jamaica Inn, Cornwall
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katarinareads · 7 months
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07/09/2023
croatia was wonderful <3
i am slowly getting back into the realities of the approaching semester :’)) expect your regularly scheduled studyblr content soon!
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raspberrysgod · 2 years
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when elena ferrante said “there are people who leave and people who know how to be left” and when richard siken said “someone has to leave first. this is a very old story. there is no other version of this story.” and when sally rooney wrote “if i told you where my car is right now, i don’t think i’d be able to leave, i think i would have to stay here just in case you changed your mind about everything” and when mikko harvey said “the number of hours we have together is actually not so large. please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.”and when karese burrows wrote “i have never seen a door that doesn’t look like you leaving. look at me writing this poem. even here i don’t mean anything i say. except that I still want you. that whatever is in me still loves you deeply. it is a light i can’t turn off. i clap my hands and nothing happens.” and when margarita karapanou said “i never expected you to actually finish anything. you were always leaving. i always picture you with a suitcase in your hand.”
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-La figlia oscura, Elena Ferrante
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mistressaccost · 2 years
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on childhood friendships and summer and saving each other and never being able to go back
anne with an e (2017-2019) / the body by stephen king / the outsiders (1983) / the goldfinch (2019) / my brilliant friend by elena ferrante / little women (2019) / stranger things (2016-) / jane eyre by charlotte brontë / it chapter two (2019) / never let me go by kazuo ishiguro
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susansontag · 28 days
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it's incredibly transparent that mainstream reviewers of the neapolitan novels (my brilliant friend series by elena ferrante) explain the divide between lila and elena in terms of elena having discipline, yet lila was somehow just too unfocused, pessimistic, or chaotic to be able to achieve her goals. some of them cast lila as a villain that needs to be contained by elena in writing; both a cruel misreading of lila's character but also one that tries to make elena complicit in seeing her friend as the antagonist of their story, something I don't for a second believe.
liberal press seriously can't handle, is unable, to admit, that lila cerullo didn't go on to become a famous writer or else lift herself up by her bootstraps because her family didn't care and couldn't afford her education, so she was forced to stop after elementary school? her father throws her out of a window when she complains. the point wasn't that she wasn't crafty enough, it's that you can be crafty and brilliant and if the opportunities aren't available to you it doesn't matter. lila potentially could have become the big boss of her neighbourhood if she'd seriously wanted to, but she wasn't interested in gaining power by such illegitimate means, she wanted to be better.
elena was dedicated and worked incredibly hard, much harder than those who were more fortunate had to, certainly. but she was also lucky. various things converged for her in such a way that she was able to leave the poverty of her childhood and create a different life for herself, and this wasn't because she was somehow better or more capable than lila, or because lila had deficiencies of character. to seriously read it as though that was the case, as though this was what ferrante was trying to tell us, is a reading so obviously false and cynical that it's bizarre these people wouldn't feel shameful publishing it. fuck the working class, they're mostly just lazy and incapable, right? oh but elena's alright, she has nice manners.
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raffaella-cerullo · 2 months
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Watch over me always
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gymncpdie · 10 months
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My Brilliant Friend in various places.
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literatureaesthetic · 7 months
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today's purchases 💸 in classics mode
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metamorphesque · 1 year
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musings on writing
Heaven Is Not Verbose: A Notebook by Vera Pavlova (tr. Steven Seymour), Letters Home by Sylvia Plath, MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood, A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector, Isak Dinesen quoted by Raymond Carver, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Max Brod by Franz Kafka, Conversations with Kafka by Gustav Janouch, The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
buy me a coffee
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flowerytale · 9 months
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Elena Ferrante, from L'amica Geniale (My Brilliant Friend), translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
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studykac · 8 months
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🦢07.22.23🦢
Finally got my nails done after like six weeks, and decided to treat myself to an extended cafe trip after to finish up another Elena Ferrante book. She's quickly becoming a favorite author and if you haven't read The Neopolitan Novels yet (starting with My Brilliant Friend) I'd highly recommend!
🎧 Seven by Jungkook ft. Latto
📖 The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
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maaarine · 1 year
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we may not know who Elena Ferrante is
but we can guess that she went through it with leftist fuckboys and is now seeking revenge
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stavroginas · 1 year
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Elena Ferrante, In the Margins
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