AndreÃ¯ Makine quotes

AndreÃ¯ Makine quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“...she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything”
-- AndreÃ¯ Makine

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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.”
-- AndreÃ¯ Makine

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“(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.”
-- AndreÃ¯ Makine

Source : "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.”
-- AndreÃ¯ Makine

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“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”
“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
“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”
“I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.”

Source : "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.
“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.
“If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well”
“Violence doesn't equal strength.”
“The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.”

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