The first by Leo Tolstoy is saying that life is to quiet and something loud needs to happen in it. The first line saying he wants movement I feel is yelling out he wants to be active. There is no reason to live life like an old person when someone is so young. It makes it feel like a huge waste. The second one by Wallace Stegner says there is no reason to live a little. Sometimes people need to feel like no one is around and act like a fool, but it would be normal for them. Their inner person who has been fighting needs to come out in some way. Everyone in their life wants to escape and break free of their lives. There are some people out there who are not afraid and do it and enjoy themselves.
I believe that Alex did look up to what these two others portrayed in their epigraphs that are noted in chapter 3. His ideas were probably though of by himself, but the added thought of what they wrote is probably in his mind all of the time. It could be a type of reinsurance that what he was doing wasn't the wrong thing to do.
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