“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not for the merits of who receives them,”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. a”
― Holy Bible: NIV, New International Version
― Holy Bible: NIV, New International Version
“the cow crossly shook her head and craned her neck, mooing plaintively, and beyond the black barns of Meliuzeievo the stars twinkled, and invisible threads of sympathy stretched between them and the cow as if there were cattle sheds in other worlds where she was pitied. Everything”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“Orioles kept making their clear three-note calls, stopping each time just long enough to let the countryside suck in the moist fluting sounds down to the last vibration.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“knew with absolute certainty that small problems in a country can become immense tragedies when left unchecked. It started small in Germany. It even started small in Poland, long before the occupation. It started with a small group of people harassing and vandalizing and desecrating, and it ended with trainloads of my countrymen shipped to furnaces and dumped into a river.”
― The Things We Cannot Say
― The Things We Cannot Say
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