Elena Ferrante Quotes
I felt like a drop of rain in a spiderweb, and I was careful not to slide down.
Elena Ferrante
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'Any road', said Carlyle, 'even this road to Entepfuhl, will take you to the end of the world'. But the Entepfuhl road, if taken in its entirety, and to the end, goes back to Entepfuhl; so Entepfuhl, where we already were, is that very end of the world we were seeking.
Fernando Pessoa
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No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. - 1961
Anna Akhmatova
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
Albert Camus
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Deep at the dark bottom of the melting pot, where the private is public and the public private, where black is white and white black, where the immoral becomes moral and the moral is anything that makes one feel good (or that one has the power to sustain), the white man's relish is apt to be the black man's gall.
Ralph Ellison
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If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.
Bruce Lipton
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I think one of the things that people take for granted when they watch a film is the actors have to exhibit an extraordinary amount of force to block out the stuff that isn't a part of their reality. And when the audience sees it, they're seeing everything the actor isn't seeing.
Billy Crudup
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You know, people always talk about how Jesus came down to Earth as a human being. He became a human being, But no one ever takes into account what that means.
David Javerbaum
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Paved with gold, no - but, yes, diamonds appear on the ground in the rain.
Andrea Levy
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Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
Alec Douglas-Home
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I liken actors and movies and TV shows to football teams. We all have our favorite ones.
Kristoffer Polaha
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The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.
Evelyn Glennie
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I felt like a drop of rain in a spiderweb, and I was careful not to slide down.
Elena Ferrante
