130 Quotes About Russian-literature

When you read Turgenev, you know you are reading Turgenev. When you read Tolstoy, you read just because you cannot stop.

Well, I maintain that we haven't one single Russian Socialist; there are none and there have never been, for all our Socialists are also landowners or divinity students. All our notorious and professed Socialists, both here and abroad, are nothing more than Liberals from the landed gentry of the serf-owning days.

Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such ages back that we are often unwilling to recognise the gulf that separates them from us.

There was much that was endearing in this strangely Russian search for absolutes —such as the passion for big ideas that gave the literature of nineteenth-century Russia its unique character and power—and yet the underside of this idealism was a badgering didacticism, a moral dogmatism and intolerance, which in its own way was just as harmful as the censorship it opposed.

HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!

Briefly (Vladimir Nabokov) caught the (Superman) fever too, composing a poem, now lost, on the the Man of Steel's wedding night.

Und ich weiß jetzt, Sofia, daß, wer kräftig und stark ist an Geist und Verstand, daß der auch der Beherrscher der andern ist! Wer viel wagt, der ist nach ihrer Anschauung auch im Recht. Wer der Masse dreist entgegentritt, der gilt ihnen als Gesetzgeber, und wer mehr als alle andern wagt, der hat auch das allergrößte Recht! So ist das bisher gewesen, und so wird das immer sein! Man muß blind sein, um das nicht einzusehen!

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All of a sudden, thoughts of the past flitted through Lily’s mind and scratched at her heart.My father. My mother. Alex… Has he forgotten me already?The countess frowned. This was not the time for such thoughts.