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“We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.”
― The Valley of Unknowing
― The Valley of Unknowing
“That was the dream of Montparnasse: to live for the moments of the greatest intensity, to find in them a truthful inspiration, and to hell with all the rest.”
― Zoia's Gold
― Zoia's Gold
“And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became gradually human. For all their show of reluctance, she had a sense that they enjoyed introducing her to these horrors, as seducers took pleasure in the corruption of innocence.”
― The Einstein Girl
― The Einstein Girl
“He reached into the grate, picked out a couple of scraps, smoothed them out, leaning close to the flickering light. He was curious to see what it was Zoia had decided to destroy.”
― Zoia's Gold
― Zoia's Gold
“Old Prague was a story-book city caked in grime: ancient, soot-blackened. History lived in every detail: in the deerstalker rooftops and the blue-sparking trams. He wandered the streets in disbelief, photographing everything, images from Kafka crowding into his head. With the turn of every corner it came back to him: the special frisson you get behind enemy lines.”
― Zoia's Gold
― Zoia's Gold
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