Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
One can retain precious memories of even the worst families provided one’s soul is capable of seeking out what is precious.
Fyodor Dostoevsky • The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)
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Cixin Liu • The Wandering Earth
The long years had ground away all the hardness and fierceness in their personalities, until all that was left was a gentleness like that of water.
Cixin Liu • The Three-Body Problem
“Лес ру́бят—ще́пки летя́т.
Max Harms • Crystal Society (Crystal Trilogy Book 1)
nor this marvelous, immeasurably deep sky, into which it seemed that one would plunge with such joy, offered anything new and interesting to Marya Vasilyevna,
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
“The novels that attract me most,” Ludmilla said, “are those that create an illusion of transparency around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel, and perverse as possible.”