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by Leo Tolstoy
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astrangerhere said:
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I was terribly excited to receive the new translation for Christmas. I expect it will take me a few years to get through it, but if the first chapters are any indication, it is WELL worth the effort. I've not read the last translation for more than 1
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“More recently, books, especially paperbacks, have been printed in massive and inexpensive editions. For the price of a modest meal you can ponder the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the origin of species, the interpretation of dreams, the nature of things. Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“She was almost in love with him. No, that’s impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren’t. Love’s the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it’s a you-do or you-don’t proposition with them all." (Chapter 1)”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“...for in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing.”
― Guests on Earth
― Guests on Earth
“When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
“Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that they signified. Now, however, we look forward almost eagerly to winter's approach. We forget the fogs, the slush, the sore throats an the price of coal, we think only of long evenings by lamplight, of the books which we are really going to read this time, of the bright shop windows and the keen edge of the early frosts.”
― Greenery Street
― Greenery Street
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