Elena Ferrante Quotes
I began to weep with loneliness. What was I, who was I? I felt pretty again, my pimples were gone, the sun and the sea had made me slimmer, and yet the person I liked and whom I wished to be liked by showed no interest in me.
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
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I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.
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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
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I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.
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I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
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The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent.
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I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing.
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Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.
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If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.
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We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.
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Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.
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Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.
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I began to weep with loneliness. What was I, who was I? I felt pretty again, my pimples were gone, the sun and the sea had made me slimmer, and yet the person I liked and whom I wished to be liked by showed no interest in me.
