Elena Ferrante Quotes
I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
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Great books are rare.
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It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
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At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.
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China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.
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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
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If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.
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I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
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The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
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I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.
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I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman.
