💬 Quotes

"“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. “I've had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can't take more.” “You mean you can't take *less*,” said the Hatter: “it's very easy to take *more* than nothing.”"

"“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”"

"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"

"Know your own happiness. Want nothing but patience to endure and enact it."

"It is not everyone who has your passion for dead leaves."

"I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."

"Constant engagement is not actually required for an attachment; to be at ease in the same society is a wonderful step towards it."

"Elinor, this is too much. To take rise in the world, to be happy, to be honoured, to be everything that is fortunate, nobody denies; but I have been too miserable to be easily comforted."

"The harsh reality of Soviet economic life was that survival often depended on bypassing the official rules rather than following them."

"For the average Soviet citizen, the centrally planned economy was not an abstract theory, but a daily obstacle course of shortages and long queues."

"The second economy acted as both a parasite on the socialist state and the vital glue that kept the entire system from completely falling apart."

"Glasnost opened the floodgates to a painful historical truth that had been suppressed for generations, forcing a national reckoning with the past."

"Workplace alienation was institutionalized; workers pretended to work, and the state pretended to pay them, creating a hollowed-out labor force."

"The collapse of the Soviet system was ultimately not just a failure of ideology, but a systemic failure to provide the basic dignity of a decent standard of living."

"I have got my life to reconcile to my time, and my time to reconcile to my heart—and I am getting on famously."

"The <i>Moonstone</i> has put a fatal end to our quiet times here. It has brought a curse with it, sir."

"It is the great defect of the English national character, in these latitudes, that we are obstinately slow in understanding the truth when the truth is unpleasant to us."

"Lawyers don't like queer stories—they like <i>facts</i>, properly divided into paragraphs, and exact to a fraction of a farthing."

"To look back to the beginning, and to see where this complicity of ours began, is the only helpful course now."

"As long as the mystery remains unthrummed, there is no peace for any of us under this roof."