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“Короткое, ежедневное сближение человека с человеком не обходится ни тому, ни другому даром: много надо и с той и с другой стороны жизненного опыта, логики и сердечной теплоты, чтоб, наслаждаясь только достоинствами, не колоть и не колоться взаимными недостатками.”
― Обломов
― Обломов
“Ведь случайности, хоть бы и выгоды какие-нибудь, беспокойны: они требуют хлопот, забот, беготни, не посиди на месте, торгуй или пиши - словом, поворачивайся, шутка ли!”
― Oblomov
― Oblomov
“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.”
― Eugene Onegin
― Eugene Onegin
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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Paul’s 2025 Year in Books
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