A Tale of Two Sceptics

“Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“We are like children who have been abandoned and we are as experienced as old men, we are coarse, unhappy and superficial – I think that we are lost”
― Enrich M. Remarque

“Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“But why don't you take him with you into the light?
He does not deserve the light, he deserves peace”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita