Elif Batuman Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing. The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

2. But I had never doubted that, when I got back to school, I would find an email from him, explaining everything. It was not, after all, conceivable that there was no explanation, or that the explanation could come from anyone else, or that it could come in any way other than email, since that was how everything had always happened between us. Either/Or

3. E' come hai detto tu: la matematica è un linguaggio che è nato astratto, più astratto delle parole, e poi improvvisamente si è scoperto che è la cosa più reale, più concreta che c'è. Con la matematica ci hanno costruito la bomba atomica. Tutt'a un tratto questo linguaggio astratto ti lascia ustioni di terzo grado sulla pelle. Quindi ora esiste un linguaggio speciale che può controllare e manipolare tutto, e se fai parte dell'élite che lo parla...puoi davvero controllare tutto. The Idiot

4. I'm 26," she said, as if it were bad news she had received only recently. "It isn't the age I feel like.""What age do you feel like?""Nineteen, like you."But to me, 19 still felt old and somehow alien to who I was. It occurred to me that it might take more than a year, maybe as many as seven years, to learn to feel 19. The Idiot

5. Of course, it wasn't possible to account for all the time. By the time you had written down what time it was, it was already later than it had been. The Idiot