“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.”
― Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology
― Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology
“This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called, 'We hate you, please die.”
― Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
― Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
― The Warden
― The Warden
White Nights
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For anyone remotely interested and versed in Russian literature, history and culture. Love Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Nabokov? ...more
Russian Readers Club
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The place where both russian readers and lovers of russian literature can share their thoughts about russian literature as well as about foreign one, ...more
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