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It never ceased to amaze her how men could flap their gums and have absolutely no doubt that women would hang on their every word. That everything coming out of their mouths was pure genius.
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“Today, no one has time for feelings, they’re all out making money. The discovery of money hit us like an atom bomb…”
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
― Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
“Hell is other people, said Jean-Paul Sartre. Don’t take this the wrong way, but I think he means you.”
― The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
― The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
“The most important thing is spiritual labor...Books...You can wear the same suit for twenty years, two coats are enough for a lifetime, but you can't live without Pushkin or the complete works of Gorky.”
― Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
― Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
“Left to itself every literature will exhaust its vitality, if it is not refreshed by the interest and contributions of a foreign one. What naturalist does not take pleasure in the wonderful things that he sees produced by reflection in a mirror? Now what a mirror in the field of ideas and morals means, everyone has experienced in himself, and once his attention is aroused, he will understand how much of his education he owes to it.”
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“Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own.”
― Childhood
― Childhood
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