Quotes about Russian

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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
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
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
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
I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing. — Sarah Miller, The Lost Crown
My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms ha — Sarah Miller, The Lost Crown
It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens. — Sarah Miller, The Lost Crown
For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning you — Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
Potemkin suffered bitterly from having nothing left to want. For when dreams turn into reality, there is an empty spot w — Eleanor Herman, Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
...some men say get them crying on your shoulder and you have the sheets half-unfurled already. Other fellows say get th — Stewart Hennessey, Comrade Fox: Low-living in Revolutionary Russia
The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depend — Vladimir Lenin
Woman is like a russian roulette", i've used to say, "it doesn't matter how many you dodge away or find the ones that wo — Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje
Popular upheaval, political turmoil, industrial progress—any combination of these can cause the evolution of a society t — Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
In matters of conscience and basic convictions it is unlawful and pernicious for anyone to forcibly intrude upon another — N.G. Pomyalovsky, Seminary Sketches
These ordained atheists cultivate their egoism, the source of every atheist's activity, but they defile it and it become — N.G. Pomyalovsky, Seminary Sketches
Living according to God's truth means that my ego must die, and I must live entirely for God and for my neighbors. Livin — Mikhail Khorev, Letters from a Soviet Prison Camp
To promise to abide by this legislation, so inimical to God, would mean forsaking the gospel and turning away from God's — Mikhail Khorev, Letters from a Soviet Prison Camp