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“You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. It's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
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