By Amor Towles.
A fantastic novel about a man who spends decades under house arrest at a hotel in Moscow.
"If a man does not master his circumstances, he is bound to be mastered by them."
"Imagining what might happen if one's circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness."
"For the times do, in fact, change. They change relentlessly. Inevitably. Inventively. And as they change, they set into bright relief not only outmoded honorifics and hunting horns... but all manner of carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness."
"By their nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration-- and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour."
"For what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim."
"The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness."
"It is only our heartbreak that finally refutes all that is ephemeral in love."
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