“History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the life of kings as an instrument for its own ends”
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“It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are!"
- Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.”
― Doctor Zhivago
- Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.”
― Doctor Zhivago
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