Elena Ferrante Quotes
I saw her fly toward the asphalt and felt a cruel joy. She seemed to me, as she fell, an ugly creature.
Elena Ferrante
Quotes to Explore
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The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
Immanuel Kant
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凡是敵人反對的，我們就要擁護；凡是敵人擁護的，我們就要反對。
Mao Zedong
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Any claim to ourselves, to the hands that secured us, the spine that braced us, and the head that directed us, was contestable.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
Ben Jonson
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Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.
Khaled Hosseini
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For thus it is, men of Athens, in truth: wherever a man has placed himself thinking it is the best place for him, or has been placed by a commander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything else, before the baseness of deserting his post.
Marcus Aurelius
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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
Dante Alighieri
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I hope they're reminded that joy is very easy to access if you just put down your phone, look at another person, and make a human connection. You'll find a new experience that you wouldn't have had otherwise.
Phillipa Soo
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Paris just exudes love and romance and, for me personally, hope and joy and faith, too; it just means so much to me. That place made me feel so happy and so safe, and my spirit was just so full of joy.
Ally Brooke
Fifth Harmony
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The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.
Albert Camus
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When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.
John Schneider
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I saw her fly toward the asphalt and felt a cruel joy. She seemed to me, as she fell, an ugly creature.
Elena Ferrante
