Elena Ferrante Quotes
She was suggesting that I separate also from my third child. She seemed to be saying: Imma would be better off and so would you. I replied: If Imma leaves me, too, my life will no longer have meaning. But she smiled: Where is it written that lives should have meaning?
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It takes three to make a child.
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
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Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
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My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.
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Fashion is something you attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction the meaning of it is born. Without the wearing of it, it has no meaning, unlike a piece of art. It is fashion because people want to buy it now, because they want to wear it now, today. Fashion is only the right now.
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I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.
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We're seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarian and Reagan Democrats all coming together as one, and that terrifies Washington, D.C.
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She was suggesting that I separate also from my third child. She seemed to be saying: Imma would be better off and so would you. I replied: If Imma leaves me, too, my life will no longer have meaning. But she smiled: Where is it written that lives should have meaning?
