Andrei

“He became so gloomy that she asked him, at last, if he was worried about anything. He assured her, instantly, that he was the happiest man in the world.
And he was. At times he was almost bewildered by his own bliss in being there, with Tony, so terribly dear, beside him; really his own for the rest of his life. It was not her fault if the insatiable sorrows of an unequal love tormented him, the hungry demand for more, for a fuller return, for a feeling which it was not in her nature to give. As she leaned forward, absorbed in the passions staged beneath her, he felt suddenly that their box contained just himself and a wraith, a ghost; as if the real Antonia, whom he loved, was an imagined woman living only in his sad fancy.”
― Margaret Kennedy, The Constant Nymph

“To live singly, is to live comfortably in peace by one's own standards with no one to tell me what to do or how to do it. This takes courage, maturity and exceptional character.”
― Books LLC

“Зло 19-го века было злом, еще знавшим о своей противоположности добру. Зло же 20-го века этой противоположности не знает. Типичные люди 20-го века мнят себя, по Ницше, «по ту сторону добра и зла». Это совсем особые люди, бесскорбные и не способные к раскаянию. Думается, что их «великие дела», даже если бы они и породили какие-нибудь положительные результаты, никогда не преобразятся в памяти «благодарного» потомства в светлые подвиги. А впрочем, как знать? Еще неизвестно, какими людьми будут наши потомки.”
― Федор Степун, Бывшее и несбывшееся

“It is easy to forget that you live in the sky - not beneath it, but within it. Our atmosphere is an enormous ocean, and you inhabit it. This ocean is made up of the gases of air rather than liquid water, but it is as much of an ocean as the Atlantic or the Pacific. You may think of yourself as living on the ground, but all that means is that you are a creature of the ocean bed. You still inhabit the atmosphere like a sea creature does the water.”
― Gavin Pretor-Pinney, A Cloud a Day