Quotes about Russia

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You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. — Olga Goa
Although I think the word "pleasure" is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning". #MilanoVeneziani. #Itali — Olga Goa
I cannot perceive that you're still a girl. Ur kisses don't seem so innocent. They just drive me crazy!" #MilanoVenezian — Olga Goa
I want to forget myself in you..." #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion — OlgaGOA
You are like a narcotic plant..." #TimothySvetlov. #ItalianPassion — OlgaGOA
Stop smiling as if we'd been acquainted with you for ages!" #VeronicaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion — OlgaGOA
Writing is like a mental masturbation to me. — Lina K. Lapina
Schooling that children are forced to endure—in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is moti — Peter Gray
Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fil — Nina Lugovskaya, I Want To Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attainin — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Florence, listen to me carefully.... Take whatever that agent offers you. Give him what he wants, and don’t ask too many — Sana Krasikov, The Patriots
Who is she, after all? Not a member of the Party. Not even a Russian...What can she do, really, but watch the ginger-hai — Sana Krasikov, The Patriots
The immediate difficulty, Florence realised while riding the high rail back to Brooklyn, was how to break the news to he — Sana Krasikov
Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did no — Gherman Titov
It seems that Russia today—dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin
I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never ch — Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. — Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It was hard to decide on a literature course. Everything the professors said seemed to be somehow beside the point. You — Elif Batuman, The Idiot
There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, it is its enormity, — Ryszard Kapuściński, Imperium