407 Quotes by Elena Ferrante

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    I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman.

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    Finally, I spoke of the necessity of recounting frankly every human experience, including, I said emphatically, what seems unsayable and what we do not speak of even to ourselves.

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    I didn’t intend to say something unkind. I meant only that you are good at making yourself liked. The difference between you and me, always, has been that people are afraid of me and not of you.

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    How many things pass through time randomly detached from the bodies and voices of persons. My mother knew the art of making clothes last forever.

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    In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed.

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    Individuals and cities without love are a danger to themselves and to others.

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    Mi ero accorta da tempo che ognuno si organizza la memoria come gli conviene, tuttora mi sorprendo a farlo anch’io.

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    It was marvelous to cross borders, to let oneself go within other cultures, discover the provisional nature of what I had taken for absolute.

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    A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.

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