It looks now as if everything has been profitable to me. And if the payment has sometimes been excessive, it was afer all the payment, for life, and there cannot be and is no excessive payment for life. — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
This is my main shortcoming: I was so determined not to lose time that I often did the wrong thing. Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old, when it dawned on me that… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear,… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
my choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of myself outside… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
It looks now as if everything has been profitable to me. And if the payment has sometimes been excessive, it was afer all the… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
For many years I used the pronoun 'we.' Now, as in my youth, I go to sleep and wake up alone. — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life. — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
“So we stood on the corner by the stationery shop and were deeply insincere with each other. --The Tattered Cloak” — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
[On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and ... it… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life for the… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
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