Elena Ferrante Quotes

And so, in spite of his virtues, he was a frivolous, superficial man, an animal organism who dripped sweat and fluids and left behind, like the residue of a careless pleasure, living material conceived, nourished, shaped within female bellies.

Elena Ferrante

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• I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.

  

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• CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.

  

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• No one remembers who came in second.

  

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• Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.

  

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• You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.

  

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• If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

  

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• I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.

  

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• The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

  

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• Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

  

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• At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.

  

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• Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.

  

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• Here is the real domino theory: Gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

  

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• I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

  

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• I think it is not irreligion but a tidiness of mind, which rebels against the idea of permeating scientific research with a religious implication.

  

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• Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

  

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• And so, in spite of his virtues, he was a frivolous, superficial man, an animal organism who dripped sweat and fluids and left behind, like the residue of a careless pleasure, living material conceived, nourished, shaped within female bellies.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Animal
  • Female
  • Virtues