Dari Novel Oblomov

The Cliff House, San Francisco, nukilan dari 50 Watts

"Of what advantage, indeed, is the grand, the immense? The ocean depresses the soul of man, and at the sight of its boundless expanse of billows—an expanse whereon the weary eye is allowed no resting-place from the uniformity of the picture—the heart of man grows troubled within him, and he derives no solace from the roaring and mad rolling of the waves."

Kenapa novel Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov, tidak pernah disebut? Tapi, kalau ia disebut, dan diperkatakan, kita semua akan menjadi malas. Lebih baik jangan disebut.