"He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons."

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Source : Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.11, Random House

Vasily Grossman

#Endurance Quotes #Characteristics Quotes #Madmen Quotes

“In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.”
“Politicians are leaches, mostly.”
“What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.”
“The disadvantage of working over networks is that you can't so easily go into someone else's office and rip their bloody heart out.”
“The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.”
“If the relatively rich participating countries want to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, they will have to pay at least some poor countries to reduce their emissions. Achievement of substantial reduction in this way implies international transfers of wealth on a scale well beyond anything in recorded history. There is no effective political support for such a Herculean effort, particularly in the United States.”
“I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles,”
“All I want for my birthday is another birthday.”

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