“Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage.” — Vladimir Odoevsky Copy Share Image
“At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits of decorum; literature itself was a totally extraneous… — Vladimir Odoevsky Copy Share Image
“Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty… — Vladimir Odoevsky Copy Share Image
“In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.” — Vladimir Odoevsky Copy Share Image
“It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people… — Vladimir Odoevsky Copy Share Image
“Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips… — Vladimir Odoevsky Copy Share Image
