Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.
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I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.
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It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
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Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
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I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from – but it's not me.
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It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.
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Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.
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If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will and then they happen faster than you think they will.
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Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.
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Kein Drang nach Erkenntniß und Einsicht, um ihrer selbst Willen, belebt sein des Philisters Daseyn, auch keiner nach eigentlich ästhetischen Genüssen, als welcher dem ersteren durchaus verwandt ist. Was dennoch von Genüssen solcher Art etwan Mode, oder Auktorität, ihm aufdringt, wird er als eine Art Zwangsarbeit möglichst kurz abthun.
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I do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair.
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The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
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Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.
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You're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.
