Louis de Bernières - Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994)

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The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Louis de Bernières

A guilty man wishes only to be understood, because to be understood is to appear to be forgiven.

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It's a fact of life that the honour of a family derives from the conduct of its women. I don't know why this is, and possibly matters are different elsewhere. But we live here, and I note the fact scientifically in the same way that I observe that there is snow on Mt Aenos in January and that we have no rivers.

Louis de Bernières

Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part of us, as inevitable as the fact that we all write poetry and the fact that every one of us thinks that he knows everything that there is to know.

Louis de Bernières

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away.

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