Elena Ferrante Quotes
Saw the rings that I had left upon waking on the edge of the sink and I put on my finger the one with the aquamarine, while, without hesitation, I let the wedding ring fall down the drain.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
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The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
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The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.
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I have written stories since I was a child.
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A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
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Be to yourself as you would to your friend.
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The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.
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With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.
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The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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There are things you fantasize about doing and saying, and then ultimately don't because it's illegal.
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We don't need a resume to come to God. It's not our good deeds. We come broken, and we need a savior.
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When 'Being Rushed' is the problem . . . Rushing is never the solution.
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In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away.
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In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!
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In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations. We have instead the tradition of struggle: the extreme situation, the final gesture.
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A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.
