“When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.”
― Oblomov
― Oblomov
“Now or neverI 'To be or not to be!'"—Oblomov raised himself from his chair a little, but failing to find his slippers with his feet at once, sat down again.”
― Oblomov
― Oblomov
“Det finnes skydd mot nästan allt som är
mot eld och skador genom storm och köld
ja, räkna upp vad slag som tänkas kan.
Men det finns inget skydd mot människan.”
― Aniara
mot eld och skador genom storm och köld
ja, räkna upp vad slag som tänkas kan.
Men det finns inget skydd mot människan.”
― Aniara
“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
“The fact is that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
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