Denis

“лучше быть волом, лучше быть простою лошадью, только бы работать, чем молодой женщиной, которая встает в двенадцать часов дня, потом пьет в постели кофе, потом два часа одевается... о, как это ужасно!”
― Anton Chekhov, Три сестры

“В этом городе знать три языка ненужная роскошь. Даже и не роскошь, а какой-то ненужный придаток, вроде шестого пальца. Мы знаем много лишнего.”
― Anton Chekhov, Три сестры

“So someone could just come up and kill me, and there would be no legal repercussions?” “Well, no,” she said. “If someone were to murder you while you were legally dead, I believe that here in Ohio they could be tried for ‘disturbing a corpse.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War Boxed Set I: Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony

“What happens if I don’t leave the planet within seventy-two hours?” I said as I handed the paper back to the recruiter. “Nothing,” she said, taking the form. “Except that since you’re legally dead, all your belongings are split up according to your will, your health and life benefits are canceled or disbursed to your heirs and being legally dead, you have no legal right to protection under the law from everything from libel to murder.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War Boxed Set I: Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony