Quotes about Russian literature

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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
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
As his hands fell upon the keyboard, it was still possible to believe a beautiful harmony had been formed at random, in — Andreï Makine, Music of a Life
I don't know what you have thought of. Everyone thinks to the extent of his depravity..." #HenriettaLedyanova. #ItalianP — OlgaGOA
You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. — Olga Goa
You've got something that I don't have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them". #MilanoVenezian — Olga Goa
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
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
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
All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment