"Is it possible that even happy moments of……" — Elena Ferrante
"Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible."
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9 Quotes by Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante has 9 quotes on this site.
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Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge…
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Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under…
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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…
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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…
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The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have…
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He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an…
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The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose
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More Even Happy Quotes
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I don’t know, I don’t know that I’m missing anything. I just think too much sometimes. Sometimes I’m even happy…
— Jeff Buckley
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I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.
— Joey McIntyre
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Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy…
— William Ralph Inge
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Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
— Tom Stoppard
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When you’ve been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you’re…
— Marie Lu
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The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be…
— Richard Rohr
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Funny how it works. People enter in our lives when we least need it, when we're already content, maybe even…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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I don't want to be sad, not even happy, I want to reach there , where feelings have no place.Where…
— Senoraroy
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