Donskoy Monastery Quotes & Sayings

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say. — Bernard Malamud

I had been searching for joy in the relatively good times of life, now I had to find joy amidst darkness and agony. — Margaret Feinberg

Whatever. I've never understood what the big deal is about reading." He shuts the door and locks it, turning for the stairs. "Going to another place. Getting lost in time. Pretending that you're living a different life." He heads down the stairs and I follow him. "What's not to love? — Jessica Sorensen

At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being. — Masha Tupitsyn

I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad. — Billy Idol

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. — Rory Bremner

while the sun and wind played gently in its spreading branches; the bells of the Donskoy monastery would sometimes float across
tranquil and sad
and I would sit and gaze and listen, and would be filled with a nameless sensation which had everything in it; sorrow and joy, a premonition of the future, and desire, and fear of life. — Ivan Turgenev