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Quotes by Russian Authors
"As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal."
"A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?"
"A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution."
"A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it."
"Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore."
"I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil."
"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."
"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."
"We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are."
"To love someone means to see him as God intended him."
"I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling."
"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."
"Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me."
"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves."
"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
"A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths."
"God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do."
"I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?"
"Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them."
"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..."
"I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting."
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