Anna’s Reviews > Oblivion > Status Update

we think that meekness means being ready to bear everything, but that is our pride speaking, our accountant's concept of justice and revenge; true meekness is where the contradiction is gone--bear it or not, put up with it or not, where there is an equal possibility of one or the other--but you do not raise your voice against God."

Lebedev is one of my most remarkable discoveries in months.

"The spirit of the times was fully realized in them: not the general & superficial one that is in the air and forms an era's ambience-fashion, slogans, speeches, technological innovations-but what is deeper and closer to the heart: the concepts of good and evil, the concepts of human and inhuman, the dominant note of relations, what one man can do to another-&the times will accept those deeds as a matter of course."