Elena Ferrante Quotes

Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.

Elena Ferrante

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• Clay
• Condemned
• Blameless

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• He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • God
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  • Paid

• No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
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• Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
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• To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.

  

  Banesh Hoffmann
  • World
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• I don't know if I will ever get sick of performing a song called 'Feels Like Loneliness' from Evolution. It's inspired by one of my favorite songs, 'Fever' by Peggy Lee. It's got a jazzy feel to it and I'm always able to put on a bit of character when I sing it, which is fun.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• I like the present and tomorrow

  

  Karl Lagerfeld

• It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

  

  Epictetus
  • Society
  • Carry
  • Judgements

• When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Passion
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  • Win

• It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

  

  George Washington
  • Evil
  • Mistakes
  • Times

• As an actor, you have to just think about the truth of your character. You have to think about how to play the character in the way that you know it needs to be played in your heart and why you were hired.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Character
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• Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Aware
  • Midnight
  • Unmask

• Hell trembles at a heaven-directed eye.

  

  Thomas Ken
  • Heaven
  • Eye
  • Hell

• Ayn was startled by the fact that while everyone complained indignantely about the physical hardships created by the communists, no one seemed equally indignant about their ideology. When — at the age of twelve — she first heard the communist slogan that man must live for the state, she knew, consciously and clearly, that this was the horror at at the root of all the other horrors taking place around her. Her feeling was one of incredulous contempt: incredulity that such a statement could be uttered in human society, and a cold, unforgiving contempt for anyone who could accept it. She saw, in that slogan, the vision of a hero on a sacrificial altar, immolated in the name of mediocrity — she heard the statement that the purpose of her life was not her own to choose, that her life must be given in selfless servitude to others — she saw the life of any man of intelligence, of ambition, of independence, claimed as the property of some shapeless mob. It was the demand for sacrifice of the best among men, and for the enshrinement of the commonplace — who were granted all rights because they were commonplace — that she held as the unspeakable evil of communism. Her answer to the slogan was that nothing could be higher or more important than an individual's right to his own life, that it was a right beyond the claim of any individual or group or collective or state or the whole population of the globe.

  

  Barbara Branden
  • Purpose
  • Hero
  • Choose

• They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity.

  

  Bob Parr
  • Creating
  • Celebrate
  • Mediocrity

• I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Wind

• When I look around, the biggest way in which we are failing to care for those in need is through ignoring climate change and acting like it doesn't exist. As a Christian, I believe that is something the church needs to know.

  

  Katharine Hayhoe
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Christian

• Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Mediocrity
  • Clay
  • Condemned