Elena Ferrante Quotes
Every one of her movements said that to harm her would be pointless because, whatever happened, she would find a way of doing worse to you.
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Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.
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If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.
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I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.
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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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Are you tired? You should be! You've been running through my mind all day.
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We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.
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The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women
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I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end You could have it all My empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt.
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Children's lives are not shaped solely by their families or immediate surroundings at large. That is why we must avoid the false dichotomy that says only government or only family is responsible. . . . Personal values and national policies must both play a role.
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The problem of the 1850s-how (for Southerners) to preserve slavery without destroying the Union-was a practical problem specific to a particular time and place. But the moral problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is a timeless one that, sooner or later, confronts us all.
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If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.
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Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
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A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.
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Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.
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I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.
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...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this center. It can no longer be tested by any force or trial, nor moved by the winds of change, and at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it.
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Every one of her movements said that to harm her would be pointless because, whatever happened, she would find a way of doing worse to you.
