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“Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know.”
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“I often think men have no understanding of what’s not honorable though they’re always talking of it”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.”
― On the Suffering of the World
― On the Suffering of the World
“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.”
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
“How much water are you going to use, idiot? Who on earth washes like that?'
'I’ll never get it clean otherwise, citizen chief. It’s thick with mud.'
'Didn’t you ever watch your wife scrub the floor, pig?'
Shukhov drew himself up, the dripping rag in his hand, He smiled ingenuously, revealing the gaps in his teeth, the result of a touch of scurvy at Ust-Izhma in 1943. And what a touch it was - his exhausted stomach wouldn't hold any kind of food, and his bowels could move nothing but a bloody fluid. But now only a lisp remained from that old trouble.
'I was taken away from my wife in forty-one, citizen chief. I’ve forgotten what she was like.”
― One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
'I’ll never get it clean otherwise, citizen chief. It’s thick with mud.'
'Didn’t you ever watch your wife scrub the floor, pig?'
Shukhov drew himself up, the dripping rag in his hand, He smiled ingenuously, revealing the gaps in his teeth, the result of a touch of scurvy at Ust-Izhma in 1943. And what a touch it was - his exhausted stomach wouldn't hold any kind of food, and his bowels could move nothing but a bloody fluid. But now only a lisp remained from that old trouble.
'I was taken away from my wife in forty-one, citizen chief. I’ve forgotten what she was like.”
― One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Eric’s 2025 Year in Books
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