"She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...'"

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Source : Isaac Babel (2005). “Red Cavalry and Other Stories”, p.65, Penguin UK

Isaac Babel

#Baby Quotes #Husband Quotes #Kissing Quotes

“He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live and work in us and through us and reign alone as king. Happy the soul who refuses nothing to love, but places everything at His disposal, for only thus may all our works be done more and more in God.”
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
“The boys are so well-rounded, they're so self-disciplined, there is so much camaraderie”
“If it were a choice between putting ads on Wikipedia or shutting down Wikipedia, we would then very reluctantly consider putting ads on Wikipedia.”
“[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Centuryâ€”perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man.”
“The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.”
“The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.”
“I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.”

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