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“Doesn't every love express itself this way, with the seeds of both its flowering and its ruin in the very first words, the first breath, the first though?” quote by Elizabeth Kostova — Download Open image

““Doesn't every love express itself this way, with the seeds of both its flowering and its ruin in the very first words, the first breath, the first though?””

Elizabeth Kostova

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“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.”

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If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion…

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What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains of savage beauty, ancient castles, werewolves, and witches - a land of magical obscurity. How, in short, am I to believe I will still be in Europe, on entering such a realm? I shall let…

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Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)

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“I preferred solitude anyway; it was the medium in which I had been raised, in which I swam comfortably.”

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The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such…

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“Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.”

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“They basked in the sweet-scented breeze, and felt the sunshine warming their bare heads. Petals drifted from the gnarled apple and cherry trees, creating a pretty storm, like confetti. They lay together in the grass, watching a beetle trundling through the blades, its clumsy movements reminiscent of the soldiers' giant transport trucks. Birdsong filled the air, horse buses clopped through…

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