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“I was thinking of the new future that our Communist science is opening to us,” he said.
“Our people are fully aware of that,” Dr. Han Tse said rapidly. “Ever since we exploded our first bomb there has been happiness and rejoicing everywhere.”
― The Gasp
“Our people are fully aware of that,” Dr. Han Tse said rapidly. “Ever since we exploded our first bomb there has been happiness and rejoicing everywhere.”
― The Gasp
“The guy was typical of the deep dichotomy in human nature, with nobility and evil, darkness and light, love and hate as impossible to disentangle, to separate from each other, as it was to split the gasp. An impossible fission, a fusion as intricate, fundamental as that of culture with civilization.”
― The Gasp
― The Gasp
“He was suddenly overcome with hatred for his own face, for its flat, hard tightness, the narrow lips, the pale, cold eyes, the deadness. Overkill, he thought. That’s what was showing on his face. Overkill. Shambles. You try hard, too hard, to get rid of that juvenile romantic in you and what happens then? You succeed, that’s what happens. And it shows forever on your face. It turns to stone.”
― The Gasp
― The Gasp
“People often told him that Lan was very beautiful, but Pei had no opinion about that. He had never really noticed other women, and to say that a woman was or was not beautiful meant looking at her with an experienced eye.”
― The Gasp
― The Gasp
“Mathieu didn’t know at all what to do about May. He felt a kind of nausea, probably induced by the regular movement of the ball. She was having religious fits again. Jesus Christ, she thought, how many thousands of years will it take people to get over their folklore?
There was nothing he could do about that now. She wouldn’t listen to all the scientific explanations and would go on imagining things. People will always keep imagining things. It was impossible to convince them that there is nothing there. Nothing at all. Only matter. Particles. Energy.”
― The Gasp
There was nothing he could do about that now. She wouldn’t listen to all the scientific explanations and would go on imagining things. People will always keep imagining things. It was impossible to convince them that there is nothing there. Nothing at all. Only matter. Particles. Energy.”
― The Gasp
Katya’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katya’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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