Ella Leya Quotes

#1. The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar's crooked nose.

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#2. Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.

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#3. Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below.

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#4. Something flickered in the distance, dressing the darkness in a soft veil of blue. Out of the blue came an explosion of sounds followed by the seamlessly expressed melancholy of Chopin's "Ballade no. 1.

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#5. By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.

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#6. Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

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#7. A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

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#8. Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

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#9. You can close the city gates, but you can't close the people's mouths.

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#10. The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

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#11. Leala's breath was "like a cello sawing away against the bouncing-bow contrabasses of her heartbeat.

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#12. Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love - that was my summer of 1979.

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#13. My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

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#14. The hurt is the place where the music enters you.

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#15. The gusty wind Khazri swept through Baku, scouring every crevice, leaving behind air so pristine that it sparkled in the ginger sun like my mama's favorite crystal vase.

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#16. That's the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.

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#17. How easy to be free. How strong we are when we have nothing to lose.

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#18. Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.

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#19. Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.

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#20. I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows.

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