“All these conversations had left a certain sediment in his soul, and he didn’t know what it was. It wasn’t dissolving with time, but instead kept accumulating and accumulating.”
― Roadside Picnic
― Roadside Picnic
“You know, it is beyond me that one can one can walk past a tree and not feel happy seeing it? How can one talk to a man and not feel happy loving him?... there are so many wonderful things at every step and turn that even the most disoriented person would find wonderful! Observe a child, observe the rising sun, observe the grass, the way it grows, look into the eyes that look back at you and love you”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“[Subject] to mass elections, those members of society with little or no moral inhibition against taking another man's property, habitual amoralists who are most talented in assembling majorities from a multitude of morally uninhibited and mutually incompatible popular demains, efficient demagogues, will tend to gain entrance in and rise to the top of government.”
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“Beauty is very difficult to judge. I’m not ready for it yet. Beauty is a mystery.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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