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Marina Dyachenko

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    Marina Dyachenko

    Apparently, unlike Portnov, not all of the professors here had manners worthy of the Spanish Inquisition.

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    Marina Dyachenko

    No, he never threatened me openly. He just allowed my fear, all by itself, to break loose and spread all over me. All of me. And my fear brought me here--and is holding me down. And will continue holding me.

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    Marina Dyachenko

    Sasha herself had changed. It felt as if she had been taken apart—and then put back together again, but at first glance she seemed exactly the same. Sometimes even she herself thought that she was exactly the same as last fall, when they had listened to “Gaudeamus” in the assembly hall.

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    Marina Dyachenko

    Sasha, the world is full of entities that people cannot negotiate with. But somehow people survive, don’t they?

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    Marina Dyachenko

    The world, as you see it, is not real. And the way you imagine it—it does not even come close. Certain things seem obvious to you, but they simply do not exist.” “And you, do you not exist?” Sasha couldn’t help herself. “Are you not real?” Portnov removed the scarf from her face. Under his gaze, she blinked confusedly. “I exist,” he said seriously. “But I am not at all what you think.

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    Think of what you told me,” Kostya said. “What?” “‘If we get to the end of the course . . . we shall become just like them. And we shall speak their language. Then we’ll take revenge.’” Sasha shook her head. “If we get to the end of this course, we won’t want to take revenge anymore. We’ll become just like them . . . and we’ll want to be like them.

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    Marina Dyachenko

    This institution of higher education had no such concept as mercy.

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    Marina Dyachenko

    To live is to be vulnerable. To love is to fear. And the one who is not afraid--that person is calm like a boa constrictor and cannot love.

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    Marina Dyachenko

    You are afraid for him. Love is not when you are aroused by someone, it's when you are afraid for that person.