Reve Eleve

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“What he would have liked, without admitting it, was for the whole world, forever under construction yet never constructed, to be like his own destroyed life.”
― Andrei Platonov, The Foundation Pit

“It is much more disheartening to have to steal than to be stolen from.”
― Boris Lermontov

“A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?”
― Andrei Tarkovsky