“Whichever wave you looked at each one was trying to rise higher than all the rest and to chase and crush the next one;”
― The Greatest Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
― The Greatest Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
“No matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being:
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being:
“They publish bulletins of my illness in every paper, letters of sympathy come to me by post from my colleagues, my pupils, the general public; but all that does not prevent me from dying in a strange bed, in misery, in utter loneliness.”
― The Greatest Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
― The Greatest Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
“had not reconciled with life, but I had to resume living.”
― We Do Not Part
― We Do Not Part
“Today’s allies could be tomorrow’s enemies, as in the case of Jamuka, and a tribe conquered today would have to be conquered again and again in a ceaseless cycle of warfare and feuding. No victory was ever decisive, no peace permanent.”
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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