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Riddley Walker

by Russell Hoban

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Jun 14, 2026 10:37AM

“When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

tags: different, friendlessness, isolation

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“Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: cooking, friends, happiness, husband, inspirational, life, marriage, mikhail-bulgakov, misery, russian-literature, the-master-and-margarita, tragedy-of-life, wealth, woman

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“Tak, człowiek jest śmiertelny, ale to jeszcze pół biedy. Najgorsze, że to, iż jest śmiertelny, okazuje się niespodziewanie, w tym właśnie sęk!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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“There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: the-master-and-margarita

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“Nie każdy ma takie życie, żeby nadawało się na dom dla niego, który będzie mógł dekorować coraz bogatszymi meblami wspomnień. Niektórzy mieszkają w hotelach, w niejednym hotelu. Lata zatrzaskują się za nimi jak drzwi hoteli - i jedyne, co im pozostaje, to odrobina odwagi, ale nikt ich nie żałuje.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

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