Kolya

“A practical rule: a man which is wise in one area may be silly in others.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.”
― Anne Tyler

“To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I can't believe the narrowness that has been attributed to God in terms of what he would approve and disapprove.”
― Marilynne Robinson

“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate