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Quotes by Russian Authors
"The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention."
"I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing."
"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."
"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."
"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."
"Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another."
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
"We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole."
"In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms."
"A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares."
"If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning."
"The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward."
"A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution."
"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
"In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that."
"Remember that there is onlyone important time and is Now. The present moment isthe only time over which we have dominion. The mostimportant person is always the person with whom youare, who is right before you, for who knows if you willhave dealings with any other person in the future. Themost important pursuit is making that person, the onestanding at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuitof life."
"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
"We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'."
"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."
"For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through the general sinfulness of creation, but each one personally for all mankind and every individual man. This knowledge is the crown of life for the monk and for every man. For monks are not a special sort of men, but only what all men ought to be. Only through that knowledge, our heart grows soft with infinite, universal, inexhaustible love. Then every one of you will have the power to win over the whole world by love and to wash away the sins of the world with your tears."
"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward."
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
"Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement."
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking..."
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