If you let the news spoil your appetite, there wouldn’t be a day you could eat.
“With you I'm jealous of what is obscure, unconscious, of something in which explanations are unthinkable, of something that cannot be puzzled out. I'm jealous of your toilet things, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the infectious diseases borne on the air, which may affect you and poison your blood.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“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
“I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“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
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