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Larry meets Kosti when he goes to work in a mine in the north of France. Kosti is an ex-officer in the Polish military who was kicked out of the military after he was caught cheating at cards. Kosti is a devout Catholic, and Larry enjoys talking to him about spiritual and religious subjects, but Kosti will only talk about those topics when he’s drunk. If Kosti is sober and Larry tries to bring up those subjects, Kosti gets frustrated and angry. A few months after Larry arrives at the mine, Kosti asks Larry if he wants to go “tramping” with him. Larry agrees, and the two travel through Germany together until Larry leaves the farm where they’re working in the middle of the night without waking Kosti.
Kosti Quotes in The Razor’s Edge
The The Razor’s Edge quotes below are all either spoken by Kosti or refer to Kosti. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 3, Chapter 2
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“I got the idea somehow that he’d taken on the hard, brutal labor of the mine to mortify his flesh. I thought he hated the great uncouth body of his and wanted to torture it, and that his cheating and his bitterness and his cruelty were the revolt of his will against—oh, I don’t know what you’d call it—against a deep-rooted instinct of holiness, against a desire for God that terrified and yet obsessed him.”
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Kosti Quotes in The Razor’s Edge
The The Razor’s Edge quotes below are all either spoken by Kosti or refer to Kosti. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 3, Chapter 2
Quotes
“I got the idea somehow that he’d taken on the hard, brutal labor of the mine to mortify his flesh. I thought he hated the great uncouth body of his and wanted to torture it, and that his cheating and his bitterness and his cruelty were the revolt of his will against—oh, I don’t know what you’d call it—against a deep-rooted instinct of holiness, against a desire for God that terrified and yet obsessed him.”
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