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"In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory."

"A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, the longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home."

"Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind."

"Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the greatest pleasure in his life."
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"Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them."

"Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care."

"For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety."

"We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission, a boat stays afloat until the water gets in."

"How strange it is beholding this,and, very confident,proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident."

"Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump."
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