Iannis: [writing to Corelli] Antonio, I do not know if this letter will reach you, or even if you are alive. Perhaps someone else sent your record, and that is why we found no note. I would like to say that Pelagia is happy, but she is full of tears she will not let fall, and of a grief no doctor can mend. She blames herself for the pain we have suffered, and perhaps the same is true for you. You know I am not a religious man, but I believe this: if there is a wound, we must try to heal it. If there is someone whose pain we can cure, we must search till we find them. If the gods have chosen that we should survive, it will be for a reason.
Louis de BernièresI have an opinion about holy war, which in general I must keep to myself. I have no wish to be known as a heretic. It is....that if a war can be holy, then God cannot. At best a war can only be necessary.
Louis de BernièresTag: philosophy holy-war
Just bring in the wood before she asks for it, and bring her a flower every time you come back from the field. If it's cold put a shawl around her shoulders, and if it's hot, bring her a glass of water. It's simple. Women only nag when they feel unappreciated. Think of her as your mother who has fallen ill, and treat her accordingly.'(43)
Louis de BernièresDr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse.
Louis de BernièresMoreover it is one of the greatest curses of religion that it takes only the very slightest twist of a knife tip in the cloth of a shirt to turn neighbours who have loved each other into bitter enemies.
Louis de BernièresTag: religious-extremism
Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.
Louis de BernièresTag: revolution
That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her.
Louis de BernièresTag: women-and-love
The dead can read tears.
Louis de BernièresTag: mysticism
He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.
Louis de BernièresTag: insomnia
Money has no religion except itself.
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