Marina

“Так же и вы не будете замечать Москвы, когда будете жить в ней. Счастья у нас нет и не бывает, мы только желаем его.”
― Антон Чехов, The Three Sisters

“I found myself remembering the day in kindergarten when the teachers showed us Dumbo, and I realized for the first time that all the kids in the class, even the bullies, rooted for Dumbo, against Dumbo's tormentors. Invariably they laughed and cheered, both when Dumbo succeeded and when bad things happened to his enemies. But they're you, I thought to myself. How did they not know? They didn't know. It was astounding, an astounding truth. Everyone thought they were Dumbo.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“it is the moral responsibility of the incompetent to identify their own weaknesses and not accept positions of power.”
― Juliet Grames, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

“Post-truth is pre-fascism.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century