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  • Sashahas quoted2 months ago
    The glory of show business is that it gives the people what they want. The glory of art is that it gives us what we never knew we wanted.
  • Despandrihas quoted2 months ago
    You will find that things that seem normal to you don’t seem normal to others, and might even be utterly reprehensible. Perhaps we are all evil. Or, perhaps none of us are.
  • Despandrihas quoted2 months ago
    WE LOVE KILLING. Which is great, because we need to kill to survive. Hungry? Kill something to eat. Sick? Kill the bacteria before they kill you. Threatened by something? Kill in self-defence. Not sure what it is? Kill it, just in case.
  • b5186438471has quoted2 years ago
    woman has a great responsibility: to give birth. But she doesn’t give birth to ideas – that is the responsibility of men.’
  • b5186438471has quoted2 years ago
    The Russian classics are, admittedly, not the most obvious place to look for tips for a happier life. Russian literature is full of gloomy people wondering how on earth they have ended up in the appalling predicament in which they find themselves, looking around desperately for someone else to blame and then realizing that, in fact, they were right in the first place: life really is extremely inconvenient and annoying, and we are all just waiting to die.
  • b5186438471has quoted2 years ago
    it is in literature – whether novels, plays or poetry – that we really see who we are – and, perhaps even more importantly, who we don’t want to be.
  • b5186438471has quoted2 years ago
    story is the stand-in for human experience. It’s pretend, it’s make-believe.
  • b5186438471has quoted2 years ago
    anything, Tolstoy’s lesson is this: ‘How Not to Live’. These are sometimes cautionary tales rather than manuals for living.
  • b5186438471has quoted2 years ago
    something didn’t quite add up.
  • b5186438471has quoted2 years ago
    Anna realizes that her life with Vronsky is authentic but unachievable, and feels she has no option but to kill herself.
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