“It was madness.Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away. “Nothing like life, in other words,” he said. “There, it’s questions with either no answers or messy ones.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
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