Elena Ferrante Quotes
So pleasure was this: breaking, mixing, no longer knowing what was mine and what was his.

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I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
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I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don't think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.
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Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
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The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
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My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.
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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.
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...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.
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"I’ve thought of a reason,” Kit MacNeill said
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So pleasure was this: breaking, mixing, no longer knowing what was mine and what was his.