Aleksey Shneyder

“For the lesson of such stories is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

“Everything looks so much alike that you wonder how people got the idea of inventing names, to make distinctions.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“A few whiskies in dull bars, a visit or tow to the Empire promenade, a little whoring on the Q.T.; the sort of dingy, drabby fornications that you can imagine happening between Egyptian mummies after the museum is closed for the night.”
― George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle, but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby