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“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“The minds of Americans, he says, are universally preoccupied with meeting the body’s every need and attending to life’s little comforts.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“I exist.’ In thousands of agonies — I exist. I’m tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Yes, the burning of Moscow was especially Russian, my friend. Of that there can be no doubt. Because it was not a discrete event; it was the form of an event. One example plucked from a history of thousands. For as a people, we Russians have proven unusually adept at destroying that which we have created.” Perhaps”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow