“HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!” — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp. — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I always really loved Russian literature, and I think Tolstoy's writing is full of a sense of melancholy and humanity, so it… — Tuppence Middleton Copy Share Image
“..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.” — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“...Or was his destiny from the start To be but just one moment Near your heart?...” — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia.… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
“If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing"… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
“And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon.… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
“.. and these days I've come to prefer the more steady Bordeaux. I am no longer up to champagne from Ay: it's… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“I took a swing, remembering the lessons of Sharafutdinov, the heavyweight champ. I took a swing and fell on my back.I don't… — Sergei Dovolotov - Translator Antonnia W. Bouis Copy Share Image
“Well, it does educate us about life. I wouldn’t be the person I am, I wouldn’t understand what I understand, were it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I believe!’ Margarita whispered solemnly. ‘I believe! Something will happen! It cannot not happen, because for what, indeed, has lifelong torment been… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“The saddest instance of the lack of real freedom, arising from the lack of real knowledge, is revealed to us in Leo… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“But do you realize that there is a dreadful force that only saints and crazed fanatics can defeat? This force closes all… — Teffi Copy Share Image
“As his hands fell upon the keyboard, it was still possible to believe a beautiful harmony had been formed at random, in… — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
“The first time I read Isaac Babel was in a college creative writing class. The instructor was a sympathetic Jewish novelist with… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I see… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Once [the Senator's] brain has come into play with the mysterious stranger, that stranger exists, really does exist: he will not disappear… — Andrei Bely Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of two greatest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by… — Mirra Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“Friendship is merely a glorified expression. In reality it is nothing but a reciprocal outpouring of slops.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I’m five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov.” — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
![“Once [the Senator's] brain has come into play with the mysterious stranger, that stranger exists, really does exist: he will not disappear from the Petersburg prospects while a senator with such thoughts exists, because thought, too, exists. And so let our stranger be a real live stranger! And let…” quote by Andrei Bely](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fd9/andrei-bely-47032_russian-literature_once-the-senator-s-brain-has-come-into-p_2140326.jpg)
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