Goro lowered his head and didn’t say anything. But she faced the two men and said (in English), “You guys don’t know his appeal,” (in Russian) “He’s brave enough to take on difficult tasks at work,” (in French) “He has the mental discipline
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“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
― Franz Kafka's The Castle
― Franz Kafka's The Castle
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― 1984
― 1984
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