A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles

For rather than being tools of self-discovery, mirrors tended to be tools of self-deceit.

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.

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