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Elena Ferrante has 9 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin,…
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Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
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I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
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I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal…
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Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words…
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The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate…
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He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme…
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Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers…
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