The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose
ELENA FERRANTEThe circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose
More Elena Ferrante Quotes
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We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.
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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 way to the normal discontents of living.
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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, there is no other truth to tell.
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My work stops at publication. If the books don’t contain in themselves their reasons for being – questions and answers – it means I was wrong to have them published.
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The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick.
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I didn’t choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
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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 think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
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The fictional treatment of biographical material – a treatment that for me is essential – is full of traps.
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As a girl – twelve, thirteen years old – I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.
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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 who passes through fire and is not burned.
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A calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.
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It’s the people who love us or hate us – or both – who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.
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Women, in all fields – whether mothers or not – still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too many things together and often sacrifice their aspirations in the name of affections.
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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