The Aviator
Eugene Vodolazkin
Top 10 Best Quotes
“when things are located within the bounds of medicine – it is better, of course, to trust Germans.”
“the nature of historical calamities – revolutions, wars, and the like. Their primary horror is not in the shooting. And not even in famine. It is that the basest of human fervors are liberated. What is in a person that was previously suppressed by laws comes into the open. Because for many people only external laws exist. And they have no internal laws.”
“the framework of science is tighter-fitting than ever: it’s just poking into my ribs. Squeezing religious thought into me: that only He can help here.”
“suddenly realized in all clarity that the conception of right and not right had disappeared over several years or so. And of up and down, light and dark, human and beastly. Who would do the weighing, what would they weigh, and who needed that now, anyway? Only a sword remained”
“one should not tell of the horrendous events in the camp after living through them: they are beyond the bounds of human experience and it may be better not to live at all after them.”
“monitoring the work of pavers. How they laid wooden hexagons in wood-block paving. How they poured tar on the cracks and spread sand. Wheels rode softly and noiselessly along pavement like this – softness is characteristic of wood; it is alive.”
“because it is morning. It is as quiet as in Paradise. For some reason I think it should be quiet in Paradise.”
“all the things that changes in government and the falls of empires do not wipe out. Whatever happens outside history is timeless, liberated.”
“a photographic portrait includes your present and past and maybe the future, too. Irony, of course, is therapeutic, but sometimes –’ and here he straightens up and looks at me pensively ‘– there is no need to be ashamed of pathos because laughter has its own confines and is incapable of reflecting the sublime.”
“Who, then, do I hate? If I feel all that for the him that was then, does that mean he is not dust? Perhaps Voronin became a part of me by remaining in my memory and I hate him within myself?”
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