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He regarded his whole life as a continual round of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him.
Leo Tolstoy • War and Peace
Ничего не было в нем ровно: ни злодейского, ни доброго, и что-то страшное являлось в сем отсутствии всего.
Николай Васильевич Гоголь • Мертвые души (Том первый) (Russian Edition)
“Young women only die of broken hearts in novels, Charles. She died of scarlet fever.”
Amor Towles • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Who knows, maybe this accursed old man, who loves mankind so stubbornly in his own way, exists even now, in the form of a great host of such old men, and by no means accidentally, but in concert, as a secret union, organized long ago for the purpose of keeping the mystery, of keeping it from unhappy and feeble mankind with the aim of making them ha
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William Hazlitt
Roger Bygott • 1 card
I try to read what I’ve written the way a first-time reader might (“without hope and without despair”).
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
“According to Chekhov,” Tamaru said, rising from his chair, “once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired.”