Dora > Dora's Quotes

“Человек все в состоянии понять — и как трепещет эфир, и что на солнце происходит, а как другой человек может иначе сморкаться, чем он сам сморкается, это он понять не в состоянии.”
― Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

“Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
― Voltaire, Candide