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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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“[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
“He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness.
"No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
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"No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
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