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Quotes by Russian Authors
"A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths."
"We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them."
"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..."
"Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship."
"I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting."
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization."
"You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings."
"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."
"A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."
"Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives."
"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."
"The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe."
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
"I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition."
"The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices."
"Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot."
"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."
"Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others."
"Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous."
"The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards."
"In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time."
"There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are crimes that are shameful, disgraceful, all horror aside, so to speak, even far too ungracious..."
"You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know."
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"
"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."
"The University brings out all abilities, including incapability."
"So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him!"
"No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place."
"We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that."
"I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for the past love which can never return. Who is to blame, I do not know. Love remains, but not the old love; its place remains, but it is all wasted away and has lost all strength and substance; recollections are still left, and gratitude; but..."
"I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back."
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