"But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it."

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Source : Natalia Ginzburg, Cesare Garboli, Lisa Ginzburg, Marino Sinibaldi (2003). “It's Hard to Talk about Yourself”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

Natalia Ginzburg

#Forever Quotes #Gone Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.”
“I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.”
“It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.”
“I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same time I knew I was alive because it hurt. I was afraid that death would find its way into me through this open knee and I quickly covered my knee with my hands.”
“Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be this: American military power, especially when buttressed by Britain's, is virtually unchallengeable today. Take us on? Don't try! And that's not hubris, it's just plain fact.”

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