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happened to them, they don’t really remember how to sleep with their entire bodies—there is always some part of them that remains awake. And the opposite is also true—when they’re awake, it’s never total. Something remains asleep. It’s not ...more
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Boris Pasternak
“О каком хлебе речь, когда его давно нет в природе? Какие имущие классы, какие спекулянты, когда они давно уничтожены смыслом предшествующих декретов? Какие крестьяне, какие деревни, когда их больше не существует? Какое забвение своих собственных предначертаний и мероприятий, давно не оставивших в жизни камня на камне? Кем надо быть, чтобы с таким неостывающим горячечным жаром бредить из года в год на несуществующие, давно прекратившиеся темы и ничего не знать, ничего кругом не видеть!»”
Boris Pasternak, Доктор Живаго

Maggie O'Farrell
“The smell of his grandparents’ home is always the same: a mix of woodsmoke, polish, leather, wool.”
Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell
“Partings are strange. It seems so simple: one minute ago, four, five, he was here, at her side; now, he is gone. She was with him; she is alone. She feels exposed, chill, peeled like an onion.”
Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

Boris Pasternak
“От Тони через маленький тамбурчик, отделявший палату от коридора, вышел главный врач отделения, мастодонт-гинеколог, на все вопросы всегда отвечавший возведением глаз к потолку и пожиманием плеч. Эти движения на его мимическом языке означали, что, как ни велики успехи знания, есть, мой друг Горацио, загадки, перед которыми наука пасует.”
Boris Pasternak, Доктор Живаго

Elie Wiesel
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
Elie Wiesel

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