7 Quotes by Olga Slavnikova

Alexei Afanasievich could now go only by betraying his wife with his death, which he had taken, like a woman, into his cold bed.

Now traces of her former beauty had become more noticeable than the beauty itself had ever been.

Only Apofeozov, whose tie pin cost so much as to become an almost magical object, could represent the district in the Duma; Apofeozov was loved the way people could love an American president running in District 18.

Later, when all the air in the new life had become like it can be in a room where the windows are broken out and all the familiar faces have strangely drained into themselves, like water into worn out sand, Nina Alexandrovna suddenly realized that now it was impossible, forbidden, and foolish to be happy for someone else.

Clever fellows who repudiated each other nearly to the point of refusing to believe in each other's existence, they turned out to be like the two reels of a tape recorder with the tape running between them and broadcasting a recorded text.

Once they’d sorted out the hundred ‘instructions,’ the population came to believe, as they did in God, that the Krugal campaign was handing out free money.

His life had in fact been colossal and, like everything colossal, pointless.