"Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest."

-- Honore de Balzac

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“We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told.”
“Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.”
“When in Italy, you should meet Italians.”

Source : "Fictional character: Signora Fiorini". "Summertime", www.imdb.com. 1955.
“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose”

Source : Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.144, Penguin
“To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.”
“The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.”
“Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.”
“I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to.”

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