"Later, every form of religious belief seemed absurd to me, and death was as if disfigured. [...] Today I would never say: he has gone away. I’ve lost the sense of the crossing over: nothing goes up to heaven, we don’t move to another world, we don’t return, we aren’t reborn. We remain definitively immobile; death is the last point on the segment of life that has chanced to be ours."
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"Elena Ferrante: ‘My belief in some kind of beyond, acquired during childhood, has faded’", The Guardian, 10 February 2018.
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