Status Updates From Cancer Ward

"The Rusanovs loved the People, their great People. They served the People and were ready to give their lives for the People. But as the years went by they found themselves less and less able to tolerate actual human beings, those obstinate creatures who were always resistant, refusing to do what they were told and, besides, demanding something for themselves."

I have a lot of quotes marked and a little over 100 pages to go, but this one might be the best:

"The meaning of existence was to preserve unspoiled, undisturbed, and undistorted the image of eternity with which each person is born.

Like a silver moon in a calm, still pond."

Prime cento pagine pesantissime, fin troppo realistiche