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“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.”
― The Joke
― The Joke
“In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.”
― Un Héros de notre temps. (précédé de) La Princesse Ligovskoï
― Un Héros de notre temps. (précédé de) La Princesse Ligovskoï
“You have disgraced the name of Russia, madam!" shouted the general, "and there are police for that!”
― The Gambler
― The Gambler
“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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