Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.
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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The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick.
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable.
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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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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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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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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 I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor.
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I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.
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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 don’t have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.
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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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The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.
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I didn’t choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
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