"Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else."

-- Vasily Grossman

#Wonderful Quotes #Forget Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.”
“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.”
“Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.”
“When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.”
“Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.”
“She was nice to him on Valentine's Day. She gave him a heart-shaped rash.”
“Our most successful leaders are people who put other people first â€¦ in the long run, thatâ€™s exactly what makes them successful.”
“The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.”

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