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Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name Quotes: Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
         

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


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Maybe I should tell her that things without meaning are the most beautiful ones. It’s a good sentence, she’ll like it.

Maybe I should tell her that things without meaning are the most beautiful ones. It’s a good sentence, she’ll like it.



As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.



She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasn’t afraid of contempt, mockery, spitting, beatings.

She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasn’t afraid of contempt, mockery, spitting, beatings.



Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.

Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.



Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific conception of society and of life

Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific conception of society and of life





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