Quotes by Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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But the Count hadn’t the temperament for revenge; he hadn’t the imagination for epics; and he certainly hadn’t the fanci — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not o — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
But of course, the Count also wept for himself. For despite his friendships with Marina and Andrey and Emile, despite hi — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
When one turns seventeen and begins to experience that first period of real independence, one's senses are so alert, one — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
...but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time. — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
Presumably, the bells of the Church of the Ascension had been reclaimed by the Bolsheviks for the manufacture of artille — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
Popular upheaval, political turmoil, industrial progress—any combination of these can cause the evolution of a society t — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
But as the Count advanced through Essays Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen, his goal seemed to recede into the distance. It w — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
History is the business of identifying momentous events from the comfort of a high-back chair. — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in a city famous for — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
If they (ghosts) wander the halls of night, it is not from a grievance with or envy of the living. Rather, it is because — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
...the book had been written with winter nights in mind. Without a doubt, it was a book for when the birds had flown sou — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow