Elena Ferrante Quotes

I don’t want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page.

Elena Ferrante

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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

Ferdinand Christian Baur
The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

Nancy Lopez
- Play
- Things
- Better
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Causes
- Avoid
- Compromises
During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.

Rachel Swirsky
- Water
- First
- Existence
I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.

Cameron Diaz
- Man
- Feeling
- Natural
Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.

Hamza Yusuf
- People
- World
- Opportunity