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“Man in other people is man’s soul. That is what you are, that is what your conscience breathed, relished, was nourished by all your life. Your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what then? You have been in others and you will remain in others. And what difference does it make to you that later it will be called memory? It will be you, having entered into the composition of the future.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
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