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How’s the penguin?” “Fine,” said Viktor. “You remember you mentioned penguin psychology.” “I do indeed.” “Just how much do they understand?” “They’re quick to distinguish mood – in people and other animals, of course. Apart from that,
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“But we simply must get home. Dinner will be waiting for us,’ said Mme Hennebeau, quite beside herself and maddened by fear. ‘On top of everything these beastly workers have chosen the very day that I am entertaining guests. Really! And then they expect to be treated better!”
― Germinal
― Germinal
“She believed in God; and the gods. It was the same thing, logic didn’t come into it. You just believed, you did puja to the idols, you asked them for favours and guidance. Occasionally you visited a temple or got hold of a Brahmin to perform certain rituals. You went to a guru and sat at his feet. All that embedded you in a way of being called Hinduism. You”
― A Delhi Obsession: A Novel
― A Delhi Obsession: A Novel
“But he wounded me and insulted my heart. I – I do not love him, because I can love only that which is magnanimous, which understands me, which is noble;”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“Today was a sad, rainy day, without a ray of hope, just like my future old age.”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“It’s all very well your complaining about the rich, but when good fortune brings you money, you simply don’t have the courage of your convictions to give it back to the poor…You will never deserve to be happy while you still have things you call your own or while your hatred of the bourgeoisie is still no more than a desperate desire to be bourgeois yourselves.”
― Germinal
― Germinal
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