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Quotes by Russian Authors
"I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous."
"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."
"For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suicide, for instead of the fullness of self-definition, they fall into complete isolation."
"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."
"Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws."
"It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views."
"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."
"I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease."
"There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed."
"Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism."
"These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable."
"We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour."
"To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success."
"I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy."
"When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head."
"Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology."
"And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe."
"I simply want to live, to cause no evil to anyone but myself."
"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."
"His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar and then at another."
"Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation."
"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
"Man has the power to act as his own destroyer-and that is the way he has acted through most of his history."
"No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses."
"The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family."
"I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide."
"By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe."
"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."
"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
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