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'They lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.'

'But instead of disappearing tuna and our neighbor's yellow hair, I would like to talk about personal happiness and duty.'

'Irina Petrovna finally shrugs her shoulders and says that we don't have the word 'privacy' in Russian. 'It simply doesn't exist.'

'War and hunger are the two words we hear everywhere: in our classrooms, in our news, in the conversations of the babushkas.'

'No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.'

'Don't care how good anybody can play a harp, God would rather hear a guitar.'

'Most humans didn't love one another nohow, and this mis-love was so strong that even common blood couldn't overcome it all the time.'

'The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. It was there to shake hands whenever company came to visit.'

'He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.'

'From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.'

'There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and though on sound and sight.'

"Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer."

"It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said . . ."

"Immediately I was filled with a vulgar curiosity, the sort that movie stars suffer from at the hands of their fans."

Where has this book been hiding? It's unbelievably fantastic, and I had never heard of it until this morning.

"Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love -- but sometimes it was so hard to love."

"The stars meant nothing to me. I couldn't name a single constellation. My family lived by one star alone: the sun."

"In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and do too little."

"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent."

"Without a driver this bus is lost. Our lives are over. Come aboard if your destination is oblivion -- it should be our next stop."

"Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?"