Elena Ferrante Quotes

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• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now…
• Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no…
• Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
• I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
• I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through…
• Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent…
• The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time…
• He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the…
• The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

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