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“Calm is the one thing that will never let us down.”

"How much better off the poor man would be if he devoted himself to reading. Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. Writing, meanwhile, is almost always empty."

"...he claimed that a person who was pure of heart could walk from Moscow to Madrid without being accosted by anyone...He was easily smitten and awkward, with the result that he didn't have a girl."

"Not reading, it might be said, was the highest form of atheism...If you don't believe in God, how do you believe in a fucking book?"

"Do I see the sacred anywhere? All I register is practical experiences ... An emptiness to be filled, a hunger to be satisfied, people to talk to so I can finish my article and get paid."

"He didn't seem very sure of himself, although he tried to disguise it with a combination of folk wisdom and a military air."

"The roars keep coming from the opening of the mine and the intellectuals keep misinterpreting them."