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“By the smallest of one's actions one can restore some sense of order to the world.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“...the Count had restricted himself to two succinct pieces of parental advice. The first was that if one did not master one's circumstances, one was bound to be mastered by them; the second was Montaigne's maxim that the surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“After all, isn’t that why the pages of books are numbered? To facilitate the finding of one’s place after a reasonable interruption?) As”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“I guess the point I’m trying to make is that as a species we’re just no good at writing obituaries. We don’t know how a man or his achievements will be perceived three generations from now, any more than we know what his great-great-grandchildren will be having for breakfast on a Tuesday in March. Because when Fate hands something down to posterity, it does so behind its back.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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