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Author: Elizabeth Kostova
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  1. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Historian

    perhaps when you live your entire life among such scenes, they do not register as beauty but as the world itself-"
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  2. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Shadow Land

    We went on growing food and eating and sleeping and I cooked for a big crowd here every day, all my family. What else could we do? You just go on, if you have to.
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  3. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Historian

    ... And I always return to the illusion that we are still together, and then -unwillingly- to the knowledge that you have made a hostage of my memory...
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  4. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Shadow Land

    Politicians who talk about purity usually end up deciding who is pure and who is not.
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  5. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Shadow Land

    I understood in a flash that I must keep my mind safe, whatever came next. I believe now that it was not only enormous luck that brought me this understanding the very first day, but also my habit of living closely with my own mind, alone with it while I practiced.
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  6. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Shadow Land

    It was the beginning of that long bifurcation that became my life: Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish. I thought later how simply and quickly they had introduced that concept to me, as easily as breaking a little finger.
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  7. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Shadow Land

    But sometimes a man who is very good thinks, I am very bad, and it-destructs his life, everything. Because he does not believe that he has any right to do something, so he does less and less.
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  8. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Historian

    ...The strange thing, you know, is that Stalin openly admired Ivan the Terrible. Two leaders who were willing to crush and kill their own people-to do anything necessary- in order to consolidate their power...Can you imagine a world in which Stalin could live for five hundred years...or perhaps forever?
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  9. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Historian

    History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is.
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  10. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Shadow Land

    I knew people who dreamed all the time about going somewhere else, and they let that ruin their lives. When you are not allowed to do something, it often becomes very important.
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  11. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Historian

    I flipped through the rest of the pages-when you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
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  12. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Historian

    I hadn't realized before seeing him how thoroughly alone I'd felt on that rain, headed toward the unknown, headed perhaps toward the larger loneliness of being unable to find my father or even toward the galactic loneliness of losing him forever.
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