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“How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.”
― Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

“...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.”
― Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

“Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?”
― Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

“Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I'd be happy to read them.”
― Saul Bellow

“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

“It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

“...за мен културата винаги е била необходима компенсация за нещастието в живота ни.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”
― Albert Camus