"If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them."

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Source : Elif Batuman (2010). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.290, Macmillan

Elif Batuman

#Thinking Quotes #Starting Over Quotes #Literature Quotes

“But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.”
“At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.”
“Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving.”
“Your soul existed before your birth, your soul will exist after your death.”

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“Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.”
“The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.”
“There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.”
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”

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