Niharika’s Reviews > Moscow to the End of the Line > Status Update

1.“And I look, and I see, and for that reason, I’m sorrowful. And I don’t believe that any one of you has dragged around within himself this bitter, bitter mish-mash. I’m in a quandary over saying what this mishmash is composed of, and, all the same, you would never understand, but mostly there’s ‘sorrow’ and ‘fear’ in it. ‘Sorrow’ and ‘fear’ most of all and, then, muteness.

2.Just universal chicken-heartedness. I’d agree to live on the earth for an eternity if they’d show me first a corner where there’s not always room for valor.
“Universal chicken-heartedness.” Indeed this is the panacea, this is the predicate to sublime perfection. And as for nature’s activist inclinations . . .

1.Oh, if only the whole world, if everyone were like I am now, placid and timorous and never sure about anything, not sure of himself nor of the seriousness of his position under the heavens – oh, how good it could be. No enthusiasts, no feats of valor, nothing obsessive!