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  1. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    But above all with a patriarchal love for his followers. Virtue was rewarded. Injuries avenged. A livelihood guaranteed.
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  2. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    Other people veto their existence. I don't let anyone do that.
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  3. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    Strangers decide their lives.
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  4. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    Early on he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot. America was his country. He would never leave America.
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  5. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    The Don knew that love is not a reliable emotion to matter how deep. Love does not ensure gratitude, does not ensure obedience, does not provide harmony in so difficult a world. No one understood this better than Don Clericuzio."
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  6. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    on his own base. The Clericuzio estate in Quogue comprised twenty acres surrounded by a ten-foot-high redbrick wall armed by
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  7. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    Is It possible to live in such a world where everyone does what he pleases? No one is punished by God or man and no one has to earn a living? Are there such women who follow every whim? Men such foolish weaklings, who succumb to every little desire, every little dream of happiness? Where are the honest husbands who work to earn their bread, who think of the best ways to protect their children from fate and the cruel world? Where are the people who understand a piece of cheese, a glass of wine, a warm house at the end of the day is reward enough? Who are these people who yearn for some mysterious happiness? What an uproar they make of life, what tragedies they brew up out of nothing.
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  8. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    What's past is past," Gronevelt said. "Never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is."
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  9. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    Chẳng có gì khó hiểu, khi những kẻ chạy theo đồng tiền hơn đam mê nghệ thuật lại kéo dài được sự nghiệp hơn, thành những người đáng giá trong xã hội, hơn hẳn những nghệ sĩ cố gắng trình bày cái tia sáng thánh thiện của con người. Đáng buồn là người ta không thể dựng một cuốn phim về những điều đó, về cái điều đồng tiền đáng quí hơn nghệ thuật và tình yêu. Nhưng nếu cuốn phim được làm thì cũng chẳng ai mua.
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  10. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    {...} jak właściwie należało żyć - szczęśliwie czy moralnie?
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  11. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    We hope someday to be saints, but not martyrs
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  12. Mario Puzo _ The Last Don

    Bet, ak vai, cik ļauna bija pasaule, kas lika cilvēkam grēkot.
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