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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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
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Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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I want to be like Johnny Bach or Pete Carril or Tex.
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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?
