Elena Ferrante Quotes
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
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Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.
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I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
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Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain.
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What’s the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?
