Elena Ferrante Quotes
I wanted him to see in that plate of pasta everything that, by leaving, he would no longer be able to look at, or touch, or caress, listen to, smell: never again.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That's where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.
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I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
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I don't wear a lot of perfumey-perfumes because I think a lot of them smell like you're wearing perfume. And I don't want to smell like that.
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I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.
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Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
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Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south.
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I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.
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My mum used Avon Skin So Soft oil when I was younger. She would have a bath, and then the smell used to fill the whole house.
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
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She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.
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God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.
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If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.
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When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.
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I love the smell of a woman's armpit when she's not wearing deodorant.
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The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.
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I wanted him to see in that plate of pasta everything that, by leaving, he would no longer be able to look at, or touch, or caress, listen to, smell: never again.
