Education Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

““The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.””

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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“Then he said a strange thing, but to himself. 'They lived, didn't they?' And I said yes, that when one reads old letters one…

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I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered…

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We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.

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I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

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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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Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it…

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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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