“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
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“Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
Claudia’s 2025 Year in Books
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