"I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars."

-- Anna Akhmatova

#Memories Quotes #Iron Quotes #Three Quotes

“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”

Source : ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8
“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”
“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.”
“Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.”
“Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.323, Simon and Schuster
“The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.”
“First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now weâ€™re entering the Age of the Ass.”
“Love without attachment is light.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 Edition”, p.260, Univ of California Press

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