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“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“You have disgraced the name of Russia, madam!" shouted the general, "and there are police for that!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler

“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.”
― Lermontov a, Un Héros de notre temps. (précédé de) La Princesse Ligovskoï

“Everything intelligent is so boring.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina