5 Quotes by Vasily Rozanov

Obviously, for these artists history has died; and even in their favorite "subjects" the face, name, past, and future of man have died; and out of this dead silence, out of this dark non-existence protruded - just as for the Decadents of our own day - nothing but "pale legs," the fixed idea of their morbidly disposed imagination.("On Symbolists And Decadents")

The darker the night, the brighter the stars.

All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance.

With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.

Look everywhere with your eyes; but with your soul never look at many things, but at one.