“Suddenly, I could see it all so vividly: the cruelty and inhumanity of self-righteous people, who like to think that they're saints, pure as the driven snow.”
― Costas Taktsis, quote from The Third Wedding
“You really liked having him in jail, like people who shut birds up in cages on the excuse that they're protecting them from their enemies.”
― Costas Taktsis, quote from The Third Wedding
“Before it began to open new wounds, the war healed quite a few old ones: it shook us out of our lethargy, our life took on new meaning, we no longer lived without a purpose, eating and sleeping and excreting like animals.”
― Costas Taktsis, quote from The Third Wedding
“Do you really think it's behaving like a Christian to be glad when you see death and ruin falling on your fellow men? Is that what Christ taught us?”
― Costas Taktsis, quote from The Third Wedding
“Hecuba had the mistaken notion, just like my poor mama, that all a girl had to do was to get married and all her problems were solved overnight.”
― Costas Taktsis, quote from The Third Wedding
Costas Taktsis
Born place: in Thessaloniki, Greece
Born date October 8, 1927
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“For a while, he’d let himself forget what it was like to be around her. It was peace. It was war. It was excitement. It was contentment. It was exhilaration. It was soothing. It was heat. It was calm. It was everything.”
― Samantha Young, quote from Into the Deep
“Fura cărţile pagină cu pagină şi le reconstituia la adăpost, în apartamentul său, ca un editor clandestin. Fiecare pagină, fiind câştigată printr-un delict, căpăta o valoare simbolică mult mai mare decât dacă ar fi fost lipită şi pierdută printre suratele ei; desprinsă dintr-o carte, şterpelită, pe urmă legată la loc cu răbdare,ea devenea sacră. Biblioteca lui Antoine număra astfel vreo douăzeci de cărţi reconstituite în preţioasa lui ediţie particulară.”
― Martin Page, quote from How I Became Stupid
“I need to be nothing for a very long time until I can decide what something I want to be.”
― Kiersten White, quote from Perfect Lies
“when you want to start something you just have to go out there and do it. There’s no point thinking about it.’ And as he very famously said ‘SCREW IT, LET’S DO IT.”
― Varun Agarwal, quote from How I Braved Anu Aunty & Co-Founded A Million Dollar Company
“Honesty was often just a way of being cruel.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, quote from Acceptance
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