We are most human in our capacity to grieve what we have los... - Elsa Morante

"We are most human in our capacity to grieve what we have lost."

Elsa Morante Death

Novelist Italian 1912–1985

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"Love is the only thing that can save us from ourselves."

"Art is the only truth that matters."

"We are all prisoners of our own history."

"Death doesn't scare me anymore."

"Death and I are old friends."

"Welcome to my world."

"Death is just the beginning."