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-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly, and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind itElizabeth Kostova
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Faith is simply whatever is real to us.Elizabeth Kostova
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My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.Elizabeth Kostova
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And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?Elizabeth Kostova
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I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?Elizabeth Kostova
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It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over when they happened.Elizabeth Kostova
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The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.Elizabeth Kostova
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In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.Elizabeth Kostova
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In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.Elizabeth Kostova
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It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.Elizabeth Kostova