Olena Beley

“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality”
― Ayn Rand

“While grateful for it, he was suspicious of the American notion of freedom, which he viewed as a strict synonym of conformism, or, even worse, the mere possibility of choosing between different versions of the same product.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“what she found terrifying was the incoherence of his tirade, because she thought there was no greater violence than the one done to meaning.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men