Luca Rossini

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José Saramago
“...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.”
José Saramago, Blindness

Voltaire
“Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.”
Voltaire, Candide

Voltaire
“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
Voltaire, Candide

Voltaire
“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.”
Voltaire, Candide

Voltaire
“Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”
Voltaire, Candide

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Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod by Nikolai GogolWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovNotes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculo... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Russian Literature
514 books — 2,284 voters
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I by Arthur Schopenhauer
Best Books of the Decade: 1810s
141 books — 326 voters

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