257 Quotes About Russian

  • Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world's, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship.

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  • Author Anna Akhmatova
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    I do not count mortal daysUnder the roof of a chilled empty building,I'm reading the Apostles' words,Words of Psalm-singer I am reading.Sleet is fluffy, and stars turn blue,And more marvelous is each meeting --And in the Bible a leafOn Song of Songs is sitting.

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  • Author Zamyatin Yevgeny
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    And Homo sapiens only then becomes man in the complete sense of the word, when his punctuation includes no question marks, only exclamation points, commas, and periods. And you, being children, may swallow without crying all the bitter things I am to give you only if they be coated with the syrup of adventures.

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  • Author Magnus Flyte
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    Dig your nails deep enough into the back of a Soviet, and eventually you'll find a Russian.

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