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Mikhail Sholokhov
“Зашел он с правой стороны, я дверцу открыл, посадил его рядом с собой, поехали. Шустрый такой парнишка, а вдруг чего-то притих, задумался и нет-нет, да и взглянет на меня из-под длинных своих загнутых кверху ресниц, вздохнет. Такая мелкая птаха, а уже научился вздыхать. Его ли это дело? Спрашиваю: «Где же твой отец, Ваня?» Шепчет: «Погиб на фронте». — «А мама?» — «Маму бомбой убило в поезде, когда мы ехали». — «А откуда вы ехали?» — «Не знаю, не помню…» — «И никого у тебя тут родных нету?» — «Никого». — «Где же ты ночуешь?» — «А где придется».”
Mikhail Sholokhov, The Fate of a Man and Early Stories

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Toni Morrison
“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Mikhail Bulgakov
“Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!”
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

Markus Zusak
“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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