

“the metro was not merely a transportation facility, built at a certain point in time, that it was not merely an atomic bomb shelter, or home to some tens of thousands of people . . . Rather, somebody had breathed into it their own, mysterious, incomparable life, and it possessed a certain extraordinary kind of reason, which a human being could not fathom, and a consciousness that was alien to him.”
― Metro 2033
― Metro 2033

“He who is brave and patient enough to peer into the darkness his whole life will be first to see a flicker of light in it.”
― Metro 2033
― Metro 2033

“Observe, orient, decide, act.”
― Agency
― Agency

“It often happens that an idea that appears in a dream to be a stroke of genius, turns out to be a meaningless jumble of words when one wakes up . . .”
― Metro 2033
― Metro 2033

“It had always been this way. The gunslinger had followed the man in black across the desert for two months now, across the endless, screamingly monotonous purgatorial wastes, and had yet to find spoor other than the hygienic sterile ideographs of the man in black’s campfires. He had not found a can, a bottle, or a waterbag (the gunslinger had left four of those behind, like dead snakeskins).”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
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