“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”
― 1984
― 1984
“For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.”
― Too Loud a Solitude
― Too Loud a Solitude
“For most people, most of the time,
drilling deeper isn’t going to actually make much of a difference.”
― The Art of Lifting
drilling deeper isn’t going to actually make much of a difference.”
― The Art of Lifting
“Ah, so?!’ Ivan said, turning around with a wild and hunted look. ‘Well, then… Goodbye!’ And he rushed head first into the windowblind.
The crash was rather forceful, but the glass behind the blind gave no crack, and in an instant Ivan Nikolaevich was struggling in the hands of the orderlies. He gasped, tried to bite, shouted:
‘So that’s the sort of windows you’ve got here!”
― The Master and Margarita
The crash was rather forceful, but the glass behind the blind gave no crack, and in an instant Ivan Nikolaevich was struggling in the hands of the orderlies. He gasped, tried to bite, shouted:
‘So that’s the sort of windows you’ve got here!”
― The Master and Margarita
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