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Incidental Inventions QUOTES

1 " Am meisten fürchten müssen wir uns vor der Raserei verängstigter Menschen. "

― Elena Ferrante , Incidental Inventions

2 " Translation is our salvation: it draws us out of the well in which, entirely by chance, we are born. "

― Elena Ferrante , Incidental Inventions

3 " Translators transport nations into other nations. They are the first to reckon with distant modes of feeling. Even their mistakes are evidence of a positive force. Translation is our salvation. It draws us out of the well in which, entirely by chance, we are born. "

― Elena Ferrante , Incidental Inventions

4 " Do men learn from women? Often. Do they admit it publicly? Rarely, even today. "

― Elena Ferrante , Incidental Inventions

5 " Reality can't stay inside the elegant moulds of art; it always spills over, indecorously.

An enemy may simply be someone who, out of a sort of emotional exhaustion, has avoided the effort, the complexity, the pleasure - all the ambiguities of friendship. "

― Elena Ferrante , Incidental Inventions

6 " Talent is insufficient: if it’s not cultivated, it ends up, in the best cases, inventing the wheel, only to discover that this has been done already. "

― Elena Ferrante , Incidental Inventions

7 " My only heroes are translators. I especially love those who are experts in the art of simultaneous translation. I love them in particular when they're also passionate readers and propose translations themselves. Thanks to them, Italian-ness travels through the world, enriching it. And the world, with its many languages, passes through Italian-ness and modifies it. Translators transport nations into other nations. They are the first to reckon with distant modes of feeling. Even their mistakes are evidence of a positive force. Translation is our salvation. It draws us out of the well in which, entirely by chance, we are born. "

― Elena Ferrante , Incidental Inventions

8 " Why was I worried? Because if, in everyday life, I was so embarrassed, so cautious, that I scarcely breathed, the diary produced in me a craving for truth. I thought that when one writes, it makes no sense to be contained, to censor oneself, and as a result I wrote mostly—maybe only—about what I would have preferred to be silent about, resorting among other things to a vocabulary that I would never have dared to use in speaking. This "

― Elena Ferrante , Incidental Inventions

9 " I am therefore Italian, completely and with pride. But if I could, I would descend into all languages and let myself be permeated by them all. Even the terrible Google Translate consoles me. We can be much more than what we happen to be. "

― Elena Ferrante , Incidental Inventions

10 " What we were at the beginning is only a vague patch of colour contemplated from the edge of what we have become. "

― Elena Ferrante , Incidental Inventions