Author of quotes: Veniamin Kaverin. Page 1

... Not all people can love, because love is a talent, like art or science.

Not too many people in the world, without which, though you can, but don't really want to live.

The story of captain Tatarinov Anna Stepanovna came from an unexpected quarter.
Unhappy women! she said although the women did not say a word. And the year wait, and two... He may have died a long time ago, no trace left, and they're all waiting for hope: maybe it will come back! And those sleepless nights! And the children! What the children say? And these feelings are hopeless, from whom it would be better to die! No, you're not telling me, - with power said Anna Stepanovna, I saw it with my own eyes! And if you come back a man like that, of course, the hero, to be sure. Well, she is a hero!

Grigoriev is a bright individuality, but Dickens did not read!

Everything was ahead. I didn't know what was waiting for me. But I knew that it was forever, that Katya was mine, and I'm her for life.

By the way, don't think I exclude myself from the number looking for "new" in the past.

Nothing is more convincing than your own example.

There are two jealous, one lying to yourself, your heart, the other lies in the other.

It will seem to you naive, even ridiculous, but secret hope, a silly hope that you love only me, never left me. Maybe because all my encounters with others is you.

The war ended five years ago, but for many it still continues. In a rare family has a history of losses, and they are not forgotten. Not uncommon still to meet a young woman in mourning for her husband, who died on the Marne or at Verdun. And how many people with disabilities, orphans, disadvantaged mothers! How often and during the holidays you see in the window, pale, mournful face peeking out from the folded curtains.

And I have a different attitude to death. If I knew your hours, I would not hurry - on the contrary, this knowledge would be for me one of the conditions of freedom.

Come, tell us about the hunt, about the bandits. They speak a corrupt Italian, I understand them, they didn't see me, but it did not interfere with our conversations.

The duty of friendship full sincerity I do not put myself always and in everything outright do not want to be, as each has its own "Holy of holies".

Between the two of us - friendship, but the past is still too close.