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Quotes by Russian Authors
"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement."
"In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms."
"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."
"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."
"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."
"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement."
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
"In love's godlike breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe."
"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."
"Never, never marry, my friend. Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the woman you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing. Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
"In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that."
"It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."
"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
"They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling. But it's true...I am, in the sense they mean-only have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?""What did they mean about you?""Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality."
"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'."
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