83 Quotes by Valentin Rasputin

الرب أعطى النقود، والشيطان صنع ثقباً. وها هي نقود الرب تتسرب عبر ثقب الشيطان.

Don't listen to people--listen to yourself.

No, even though everyone had one set of hands and feet, there was more than one person inside--there were several, each pulling a different way, tearing you apart until they led you to your grave And yet we think that another's soul is impenetrable--as though we know our own at least a little.

...sometime when your life is so good, you'll want to make your happiness as simple as possible.

Let others do as they wished, but she would live the life she began and would not run from corner to corner in a frenzy. She would wait for her own happiness, not someone else's.

Everything that happens is for the best, so that life is happier and more interesting. Just live without looking around or thinking.

This is everything for me, my only service in life. And let people not know, but my blood will know that he's mine. Only our blood remembers us anyway.

That's why they say: work puts man in his grave but it's work that feeds and protects him until the grave. The important thing is that it protects him.

There was truth in the saying: the one you marry is the one you become.