#russian literature

women make decisions that no one can possibly contradict and that if he were to try, he might come to grief, but she would

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… driven into a corner, I felt in my right place; and the feeling was pierced with pain. I understood that I lived only

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My “contrariness” began in inconceivable eternity, when the fiery little star of my spirit flared up in the mist of the world.

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She searched for love, not chaotically, like thousands of other girls her age, but by relying on her powerful instincts.

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It’s fascinating to trace the trajectories of people destined to meet. Sometimes such encounters happen without any special

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What does the one who is buried alive say ? “I am ready for everything,” I say. “Ready to accept everything, and I will

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Anyway. His favorite turn of speech: anyway.

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Morning recognised my face and seemed to have come to be with me and never to leave me.

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In Russian “to lie” has more the sense of “to exaggerate” than of “to deceive.” In this sense does art lie. Its image

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… I lost in you the dearest thing I ever had in life.

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Anna Akhmatova...

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with Fyodor Dostoevsky...