“Yesterday I was a fool, today I know better.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be that same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC. And it is in order to acknowledge the continuity of this polymer that I begin so many sentences with 'And' and 'So' and end so many paragraphs with '...and so on.' And so on. 'It's all like an ocean!' cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“Tate remembered his dad’s definition of a man: one who can cry freely, feel poetry and opera in his heart, and do whatever it takes to defend a woman.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“If goodness has a cause, it is no longer goodness. If it has a consequence, a reward, it is also not goodness. Therefore, goodness is beyond the chain of cause and effect. It is exactly this that I know and that we all know. What greater miracle could there be than that?”
― Anna Karenina, Vol 8 of 8
― Anna Karenina, Vol 8 of 8
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