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No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development. Karenin surrounded Tereza and Tomas with a life based on repetition, and he expected the same from them.
Milan Kundera • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
When the man saw me he frowned and became still more terrible, and passed me by on the other side. I despaired, but suddenly I heard him coming back. I looked up, and did not recognize the same man: before, I had seen death in his face; but now he was alive, and I recognized in him the presence of God.
Leo Tolstoy • Walk in the Light and Twenty-Three Tales
Man cannot exist without work, without legal, natural property. Depart from these conditions, and he becomes perverted and changed into a wild beast.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont
En dépit de l’aimée lointaine d’Ukraine et de celle qui est là, toute proche, aux Champs-Élysées, il est seul, plus seul que jamais dans sa vie. Avec cette mort s’éveille en lui quelque chose de nouveau, un sentiment que cette nature débordante de vitalité, d’optimisme, de foi en son étoile n’avait jamais connu, une angoisse, une mystérieuse, inson
... See moreStefan Zweig • Balzac: Le roman de sa vie (French Edition)
Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1941).