A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
He gulps down air, trying to fill his lungs, but the air feels heavier than it ought to feel. It doesn’t look like there’s anyone here to wake him up this time. In the old days there were bands of horsemen, sometimes even a king, in person, when the need was dire. Then it became army lorries, or circles of druids in white shifts, slightly surprised
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Lives interweave with other lives, and out of the tapestry arise hints at answers to questions that raze to the bone of life: What are the building blocks of character, of contentment, of lasting achievement? How does a person come into self-possession and sovereignty of mind against the tide of convention and unreasoning collectivism? Does genius ... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
but when you come to live every day in the midst of absurdity, it is far less easy to behave respectfully to it.
George MacDonald • Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women
But it’s only a Tuesday in September, it’s hardly half past ten – aren’t we strong in will, Thomas Hart, don’t the valves of our hearts open and close in good order – don’t we keep the lenses of our telescopes preserved at all times from fingerprints and dust? Come now, Thomas. What is there to do but to strive, and seek, and find, and not to yield
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