"All the horror is in just this -- that there is no horror. . . ."

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Source : Aleksandr Kuprin (2015). “Yama: The Pit”, p.6, Booklassic

Aleksandr Kuprin

“Can't keep Love like money in the bank”
“I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.”

Source : Anna Funder (2012). “All That I Am: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins
“Mistress of the grisly and the glutinous”
“There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.”
“[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
“Anytime you get hate, send out love. Then love will come back & you'll be free.”
“Act as if success is certain.”

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