“…the mistake men make in picturing to themselves happiness as the realization of their desires” [Alexey thinking]
“…all the same color for which no one has a name—a color somewhere between gray & charcoal that is no color at all”
Exhaustive work of miniaturists in Pamuk’s book and of illuminators in Eco’s. World of depiction surrounding sacred text…
“Ah, generosity! If you want to be right, I can give you that satisfaction. You’re in the right; but I’m going all the same”
To the question of how to live, there is an insoluble question presented itself—death.
“…the desire, which had been to him that night not a dream but an intention, the execution of which he had thought out in detail…”
Oliver Twist to London is like Gavroche to Paris
Is a winning number in lottery a victory? Merely rather something won, paid by others
@wartajazz slightly technical report referred in “Aceh: History, Politics, & Culture” book. Music-related chapter http://goo.gl/A5y1o
“The digressions of genius are easily pardoned”