Sublime

Lenin’s model of revolution has proven frighteningly durable. His goal—not to improve the state machine, but to smash it and all its institutions—has been embraced by many twenty-first-century populists.

In my opinion, Christ’s love for people is in its kind a miracle impossible on earth.

Петр Савельев Неуважай-Корыто,

To drop a man in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and tell him he is at liberty to walk ashore would not be a more bitter irony than to place a man where all the land is appropriated and to tell him that he is a free man, at liberty to work for himself and to enjoy his own earnings. George, SP

And when the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God and understood What men live by.

That said, I had always been one of those quiet boys who preferred dreams to the real world. I was, in addition, absurdly shy, and therefore often mistaken for a fool, which upset me deeply. For nothing terrified me more than the prospect of correcting a false impression.

Like Cottard he felt a need for friendly contacts, human warmth.

But it is hard for a discontented man not to reproach someone else, especially the very one who is closest to him, for his discontent.

he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never attained.