83 Quotes by Valentin Rasputin
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How can anyone not drink?...Is anyone fool enough not to want to feel good? The day you have a drink's always like a holiday. If you only know when to stop.
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In the olden days, at least, they knew when to stop. ""Now they don't any more. In the olden days they had some shame as well.""Yes, now they ain't got no shame either.
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...an unknown sin needs all the more expiation.
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The new settlement was no nearer or dearer to her than, say, America, where they said people, in order to not wear out their feet, walked on their heads.
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There was nothing more unfair in the world than when something, be it tree or man, lived on to uselessness, to the point when it became a burden; that of the multitude of sins let loose upon the world to be prayed away and redeemed, this was the only one that was unbearable. The tree at least would fall, rot, and fertilize the earth. But man? Is he at least good for that? Then why bear old age if it brings nothing but discomfort and suffering?
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The world is going to crack in half: that's what is happening! And it will break across us, the old people...we don't belong here or there. Lord have mercy!
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You must remember everything. Everything must be remembered, but the bad, like private parts, shouldn't be shown without a good reason.
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I don't know how it is in mathematics, but in life the best proof for something lies in its opposite.
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Life was life so that it could go on, it could take everything and survive anywhere, even on bare rock or shifting sands, and if necessary, even under water, but why torture it this way for no good reason, creating totally unnecessary difficulties for people, why worry about small conveniences and create major inconveniences?
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