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“In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.”
― Lermontov a, Un Héros de notre temps. (précédé de) La Princesse Ligovskoï

“We are adept, if occasionally embarrassed, at saying what we make of places - but we are far less good at saying what places make of us...”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

“A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca