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“What is life? - A novel. Who is the author? - Anonymous. We read haltingly, laugh, weep... and sleep.

Что наша жизнь? - роман. Кто автор? - аноним. Читаем по складам, смеемся, плачем... спим.”
― Nikolai Karamzin

tags: existential

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“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
― Milan Kundera

tags: kundera, poetic, profound, sabina, tereza, tomas

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“manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: censorship

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