“Souls unite in the face of violence, if only on the common ground of frailty.”
― The Tree of Man
― The Tree of Man
“All that could happen was alone with me and I was alone with it.”
― In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories
― In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories
“Time comes not from the ground but from the underground. Time belongs to Satan; he carries it like a skein in the pocket of the devil, unravels it when his mysterious economies do dictate, and it should be wrested away from him. For, if one can ask and receive eternity from God, then we can take the opposite of eternity --time-- only from Satan...”
― Dictionary of the Khazars
― Dictionary of the Khazars
“Swallows flew, the scythes of their wings mowing the light.”
― The Tree of Man
― The Tree of Man
“Always remember - you work because you don't know how to live. If you knew how to live, you would not work, and science wouldn't exist for you. But everybody taught us only how to work, not how to live. I don't know how to live either.”
― Dictionary of the Khazars
― Dictionary of the Khazars
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