Sublime

Vitaly lui, financier de son état, incarnait le Moscovite : rapide, intelligent, urbain, souple et manœuvrier. Cravaté le jour sous le climatiseur de son agence, mais capable par une nuit de neige de dormir en pleine forêt, enroulé dans un manteau de laine. En Russie, Tolstoï n’était jamais loin. La modernité n’avait pas complètement arraché ses en

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying, ‘This is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars and murders, how much misery and horror the human race would have been spared if someone had pulled up the stakes and filled in the ditch and cried out to

General prosperity is favorable to the stability of all governments, but more particularly of a democratic constitution, which depends upon the dispositions of the majority, and more particularly of that portion of the community which is most exposed to feel the pressure of want.

Sergei Ivanovich, who knew like no one else how to add some Attic salt8 to the end of a most abstract and serious discussion

The idea of the Citizen is that his individual human nature shall be constantly and creatively active in altering the State. The Germans are right in regarding the idea as dangerously revolutionary. Every Citizen is a revolution. That is, he destroys, devours and adapts his environment to the extent of his own thought and conscience.

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

I play the fool, Pyotr Alexandrovitch, to make myself agreeable. Though I really don’t know myself, sometimes, what I do it for.