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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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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Branding is something designers think about a lot. You take something like a perfume or car tire, or butt-flavored bubblegum, and you ask questions about it that you shouldn't be able to ask. What kind of tuxedo would this car tire wear to the prom? What is this perfume's favorite movie? You try to end up in a place where you understand a product as if it is a person.
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When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.
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Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
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I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.
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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?
