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The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy #1) QUOTES

The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy #1) QUOTES

1 " Great fear can cast love out. "

― Olivia Manning , The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy #1)

2 " ... freedom is the knowledge of necessity and there is no wealth but life. When you understand that you understand everything. "

― Olivia Manning , The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy #1)

3 " Harriet was reminded of Doamna Flöhr’s claim that the exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded. "

― Olivia Manning , The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy #1)

4 " [T]he exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded. "

― Olivia Manning , The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy #1)

5 " She’s just a typical bourgeois reactionary.’ ‘You mean, her prejudices are different from yours. "

― Olivia Manning , The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy #1)

6 " Looking at Sophie's well developed bosom, Harriet felt at a disadvantage. Perhaps Sophie's shape would not last. but it was enviable while it lasted. "

― Olivia Manning , The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy #1)

7 " Harriet glanced after her as she went manoeuvering her broad and vigorous backside between the tables, and asked: 'What does Nikko do?'
'Why nothing. He's married to Bella. "

― Olivia Manning , The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy #1)

8 " A man is made by his circumstances... If you want to change him, change his circumstances. "

― Olivia Manning , The Great Fortune (Balkan Trilogy #1)