Russian Dolls Quotes

• I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

  Emma Watson

  Quirky, Dolls, Collections

  "Emma Watson". www.seventeen.com. December 12, 2007.

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• As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reflection, Mirrors, Identity

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.17, Penguin

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• The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.

  Craig Stone

  Bridges, Ego, Dolls

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• Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Thinking, Brain, Dolls

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• As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.

  Frans de Waal

  Mean, Later In Life, Empathy

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