130 Quotes About Russian-literature

  • Author Vladimir Mayakovsky
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    Я знаю силу слов я знаю слов набатОни не те которым рукоплещут ложиОт слов таких срываются гробашагать четверкою своих дубовых ножек.I know the sway of words, I know their warningsThey’re not those applauded from the boxesFrom words such as these coffins break free Striding forth on their four oaken legs.

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  • Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    But she forgot nothing, and he sometimes forgot much too quickly, and, often that same day, encouraged by her composure, would laugh and frolic over the champagne, if friends stopped by. What venom must have been in her eyes at those moments yet he noticed nothing!

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  • Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let us never forget how good we all once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings as made us, too,...perhaps better than we actually are.

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  • Author Guillermo Erades
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    I admired the way Anton Pavlovich didn’t seem so much interested in telling a story as in conveying a nastroeniye – a mood or atmosphere. Anton Pavlovich is the master of nastroeniye, Lyudmila Aleksandrovna had told me, and he certainly was, capturing in his writing the essence of late nineteenth-century Russia.

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