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“He could not understand why happiness seems so improbable to everyone, why people try to charm one another only with sorrow.
Chagataev had had his fill of grief when he was a child. Now that he was educated, he thought of grief as something all too easy, and he was determined to build a happy world of bliss in his homeland: what else, in any case, was there to do in life?”
― Soul
Chagataev had had his fill of grief when he was a child. Now that he was educated, he thought of grief as something all too easy, and he was determined to build a happy world of bliss in his homeland: what else, in any case, was there to do in life?”
― Soul
“For there was no apparatus, no contentment, no dear friend, no conquest of the stars that could overcome the impoverishment of his soul; no matter what, he would remain aware of the vanity of friendship founded on dominance rather than on carnal love — and of the boredom of the most distant stars, in whose depths lay the same copper ores and which would need the same Supreme National Economic Soviet.”
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“There is a grief that ends only after the heart has been warn away in long oblivion.”
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“With us everything is decided by the majority. And, since nearly everyone is illiterate, the day will come for the illiterate to decree that the literate should unlearn their letters—in the name of universal equality. All”
― Chevengur
― Chevengur
