Quotes from The Man From St. Petersburg

“Cómo debo vivir?». La respuesta de Tolstói era: «Tú conoces en tu corazón lo que es recto».”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg

“—La moralidad de Tolstói. Hacer el bien tal vez no te haga feliz, pero hacer el mal seguro que te hará desgraciado. Ella”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg

“La relación de amor no es la misma que la de la adoración. Se adora a un dios. Solo los seres humanos pueden ser amados. Cuando adoramos a una mujer no podemos amarla. Luego, cuando descubrimos que no es un dios, la odiamos. Eso es triste. —Nunca”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg

“Growing up is learning to deceive.”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg

“Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ...”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg

“A man who has no fear can do anything he wants, Feliks thought. He had learned that lesson eleven years ago, in a railway siding outside Omsk. It had been snowing . . .”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg

“the ultimate truth about oppression: that it works by turning its victims against each other instead of against their oppressors. He”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg

“... sentiments which Feliks had already come to recognise as being characteristic of The Times, which would have described the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as strong rulers who could do nothing but good for the stability of the international situation.”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg

“... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg

“La comida no era tan buena como la que le servían en su casa, pero la atmósfera era muy tranquila. Los sillones del saloncito para fumadores eran antiguos y cómodos, los camareros eran mayores y lentos, el papel de la pared estaba descolorido y la pintura había perdido color. Todavía tenían luz de gas. Los hombres como Walden acudían allí porque sus casas les resultaban excesivamente limpias y femeninas. —Dijo usted que casi lo habían”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Man From St. Petersburg

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