

“The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring—hence he erred himself.”
― We
― We

“How can there be a final revolution? There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
― We
― We

“To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. To do nothing and to despair is to neglect our duty.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago

“You wouldn’t believe what spite and superstition there is in the world.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago

“Language, the home and receptacle of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for man and turns wholly into music, not in terms of sonority but in terms of the impetuousness and power of its inward flow. Then, like the current of a mighty river polishing stones and turning wheels by its very movement, the flow of speech creates, in passing, by virtue of its own laws, meter and rhythm and countless other relationships, which are even more important, but which are as yet unexplored, insufficiently recognized, and unnamed.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago

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