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1 " 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 , The Third Wedding
2 " 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. "
3 " When you're dead, you're dead, and that's that. "
4 " I'd learned never to be a snob until I got to know a person's worth; and how can you get to know a person well if you don't have coffee together? "
― Costas Taktsis
5 " 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. "
6 " 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. "
7 " 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. "
