Quotes about Russia

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Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after puttin — P.G. Wodehouse, The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
I didn't care about truth — I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.
Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional — Russian, Unknown
It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
I love you breathlessly, my amazing man. — Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman
Alexander tilted his head and kissed her deeply on the lips. He let go of her hands, and she wrapped her arms around his — Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. — Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. — Marina Tsvetaeva, Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922
Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone? — Marina Tsvetaeva
How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and m — Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Stolen Apples
I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have no — Osip Mandelstam
It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russia — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian — Mirra Ginsburg, The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic an — Nick Cohen
I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells ins — John Taylor Gatto
But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and the ancient forest — Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
Then a beat-up car lurched into sight towing an even more beat-up car. As the cars came near, I saw that they were conne — Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia
I asked of the limitless sunshineHow to shine with the dawn's glowing light;No answer came back from the sunshine, But m — K. Balmont
Stalin’s Russia was a trap, in which even those running the system were caught. The leaders were trapped by fear of Stal — Jonathan Glover
The old disease, thought Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people's minds. Or, perhaps they shoul — Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon