Elena Ferrante Quotes
Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite. And there was nothing in her appearance that acted as a corrective.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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He does not have to know us so well, but He chooses to.
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
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The great skill of investment is to know when the right time is to get out. Getting in's easy.
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He wants quickness and explosion off the ball. He's a real up-tempo guy.
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Most of it's about the quickness involved. Just the activity to the ball. Loose balls, tip-ins, all those little things make such a difference in a game. And that's a matter of seconds, and I think a lot of that is about energy.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
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The bite of conscience is indecent.
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The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.
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When the bread basket comes to the table and I have a bite, people are like, "Oh, you eat bread?" I say, "Oh, my God, of course I eat bread. I'm human."
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
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To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.
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Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite. And there was nothing in her appearance that acted as a corrective.
