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Apoorva

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Apoorva’s Quotes

“...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.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

tags: divorce, love, sadness

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“There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

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“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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“Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

tags: ferrantefever, intellect, intelligence, intelligent-people, simile

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“And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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