

“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita

“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus

“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.”
― Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
― Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums.
The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”
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The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”
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