“I sit up talking till daybreak with the young people and we have almost Athenian evenings, Athenian, I mean, only in their intellectual subtlety and refinement.”
― Demons
― Demons
“He could do nothing but twist his moustache, drink, and chatter the most inept nonsense that can possibly be imagined.”
― Demons
― Demons
“On every face was written that they had only just discovered some extremely important secret.”
― Demons
― Demons
“You cannot imagine what wrath and sadness overcome your whole soul when a great idea, which you have long cherished as holy, is caught up by the ignorant and dragged forth before fools like themselves into the street, and you suddenly meet it in the market unrecognizable, in the mud, absurdly set up, without proportion, without harmony, the plaything of foolish louts!”
― Demons
― Demons
“He chanced to be in a lucid critical mood, and would not sympathize with exaltation.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
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