Midnight in the Century Quotes

“What are you dreaming of Varvara?” asked Avelii. He saw in her eyes that look, at once absent and intimate, that we have when, perhaps unawares, we reach out so intensely toward another person—toward the deep, multiple self within his parcel of eternity—that we stop noticing him in the present.”
― Victor Serge, Midnight in the Century

“Stalin gave Hitler his strength by driving the middle classes away from Communism with the nightmare of forced collectivization, famine, and terror against the technicians.”
― Victor Serge, Midnight in the Century