“Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“The proudest, the most independent of women, if I can but succeed in communicating my passion to her, will follow me unreasoningly, unquestioningly, doing all I desire. Out of a nun I once made a nihilist who, I heard later, shot a policeman. In all my wanderings my wife never left me for an instant, and, like a weathercock, changed her faith with each of my changing passions.
- On the Way”
― Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
- On the Way”
― Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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