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Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for the trade, we thrive on bones; without them there’d be no stories.
“Just like a murderer jumps out of nowhere in an alley, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
“Manuscripts don't burn.”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
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“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
“That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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