To acknowledge pain is the first step toward transformation. - Elsa Morante

"To acknowledge pain is the first step toward transformation."

Elsa Morante Wisdom

Novelist Italian 1912–1985

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"Love is the only thing that can save us from ourselves."

"Art is the only truth that matters."

"We are all prisoners of our own history."

"I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed."

"The best things in life are free."

"You can't have everything in life, but you can have what matters most."

"A woman's intuition is rarely wrong."