8 Quotes by Yury Olesha

Она смеялась, потому что я был мальчик, а она девочка, и между нами появился стыд

..я стал мыслить. Это единственно и неповторимо, как познавание женщины

Инженеры человеческих душ

Writers are engineers of human souls.

What could be poetic in a pigsty enveloped in so many curses?

A HUGE cloud with the outline of South America loomed over the city. The cloud itself was luminous, but the shadow it cast was ominous. The shadow was moving astronomically slowly toward Babichev’s street.

You are a clot, so to speak. A clot of envy in the dying era’s bloodstream. The dying era envies the era that’s coming to take its place.

I need to be blinded, Valya. I was wrong, Valya... I thought the emotions had perished – love and devotion and tenderness, but it’s all still here, Valya... Only not for us, all that’s left for us is envy and more envy... Poke out my eyes, Valya, I want to go blind...