“Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.”
― Death of a Naturalist
― Death of a Naturalist
“Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.”
― Война и мир
― Война и мир
“It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.”
― Tales from Earthsea
― Tales from Earthsea
“Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
“What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
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