Andreï Makine quotes
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“...she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything”
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“People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases.”
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“(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.”
-- Andreï MakineSource : "Dreams of My Russian Summers". Book by Andreï Makine, September 6, 1995.
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“The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.”
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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.
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“Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am FREEDOM.”
Source : "The Books of the Polish Nation". Book by Adam Mickiewicz, 1833.
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“If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well”
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