...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

Elizabeth Kostova


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-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy?
-Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it

Elizabeth Kostova

Tags: inspirational happiness destiny



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Ich verstehe mit achtzig was ich mit siebzig noch nicht verstehen konnte, naemlich dass man am Ende so gut wie allen vergibt, nur sich selbst nicht.

Elizabeth Kostova

Tags: swan-thievea



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Manchmal gibt es kaum etwas Schwierigeres, als zu jemandem zu sprechen, der ueber die Macht des Schweigens verfuegt.

Elizabeth Kostova


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Marriages are like certain books, a story where you turn the last page and you think it's over and then there's an epilogue, and after that you're inclined to go on wondering about the characters or imagining that their lives continue without you, dear reader. Until you forget most of that book, you're stuck puzzling over what happened to them after you closed it.

Elizabeth Kostova


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Der Glaube ist das, was fuer uns real ist.

Elizabeth Kostova


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I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

Elizabeth Kostova

Tags: anthropology



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He was my husband, my apartment mate, my soul mate, the father of the little plant in my confused soil, the lover who had made me adore his body without inhibition after my years of relative solitude, the person for whom I'd given up my old self.

Elizabeth Kostova


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A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming.

Elizabeth Kostova

Tags: art-history



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My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

Elizabeth Kostova

Tags: relationships



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