Elena Ferrante: Frasi in inglese

Elena Ferrante è pseudonimo di una scrittrice. Frasi in inglese.

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“Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn’t agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.”

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Elena Ferrante libro Storia del nuovo cognome

Origine: The Story of a New Name

“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”

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Elena Ferrante libro I giorni dell'abbandono

Origine: The Days of Abandonment

“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”

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Elena Ferrante libro Storia del nuovo cognome

Origine: The Story of a New Name

“Each of us narrates our life as it suits us.”

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Origine: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“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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Elena Ferrante libro I giorni dell'abbandono

Origine: The Days of Abandonment

“Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.”

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Elena Ferrante libro L'amica geniale

Origine: My Brilliant Friend

“They were more severely infected than the men, because while men were always getting furious, they calmed down in the end; women, who appeared to be silent, acquiescent, when they were angry flew into a rage that had no end.”

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Elena Ferrante libro L'amica geniale

Origine: My Brilliant Friend

“Things without meaning are the most beautiful ones.”

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Elena Ferrante libro Storia del nuovo cognome

Origine: The Story of a New Name

“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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Elena Ferrante libro I giorni dell'abbandono

Origine: The Days of Abandonment

“In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.”

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Origine: The Story of the Lost Child

“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”

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Origine: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.”

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Elena Ferrante libro I giorni dell'abbandono

Origine: The Days of Abandonment

“She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.”

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Elena Ferrante libro L'amica geniale

Origine: My Brilliant Friend

“Nino has something that's eating him inside, like Lila, and it's a gift and a suffering; they aren't content, they never give in, they fear what is happening around them.”

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Elena Ferrante libro L'amica geniale

Origine: My Brilliant Friend

“Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.”

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Elena Ferrante libro Storia del nuovo cognome

Origine: The Story of a New Name

“Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.”

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Origine: The Story of the Lost Child

“… maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.”

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Origine: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence”

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Origine: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“Nowhere is it written that you can’t do it.”

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Elena Ferrante libro L'amica geniale

Origine: My Brilliant Friend

“Later, every form of religious belief seemed absurd to me, and death was as if disfigured. […] Today I would never say: he has gone away. I’ve lost the sense of the crossing over: nothing goes up to heaven, we don’t move to another world, we don’t return, we aren’t reborn. We remain definitively immobile; death is the last point on the segment of life that has chanced to be ours.”

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"Elena Ferrante: ‘My belief in some kind of beyond, acquired during childhood, has faded’" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/10/elena-ferrante-life-after-death, The Guardian, 10 February 2018.