"In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger -- a stranger... A stranger, and lonely..."

-- Anton Chekhov

#Lonely Quotes #Moscow Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”
“I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.”
“What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.”
“I call myself a constitutional conservative.”
“Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.”
“Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.29, Basic Books
“As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.”
“Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.”

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