“So we stood on the corner by the stationery shop and were deeply insincere with each other. --The Tattered Cloak” — Nina Berberova Tattered Copy Share Image
Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner. — Nina Berberova Dying 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 Going to sleep Copy Share Image
I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life. — Nina Berberova Intensity 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… — Nina Berberova Has beens Copy Share Image
[On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and… — Nina Berberova Appeared 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,… — Nina Berberova Cities Copy Share Image
my choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of… — Nina Berberova Biology 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.… — Nina Berberova Becoming 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… — Nina Berberova Cities 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,… — Nina Berberova Concentration 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… — Nina Berberova Balance Copy Share Image
I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million… — Nina Berberova Conscious Copy Share Image
Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as… — Nina Berberova Books Copy Share Image
even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still. ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing… — Nina Berberova Deceive Copy Share Image
How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and… — Nina Berberova Alive Copy Share Image
The past is good (as we all know), twenty, thirty years back everything was good, anyone can tell you that. — Nina Berberova Knows 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… — Nina Berberova Begging Copy Share Image
[On Paris:] It exists, constant, eternal, surrounding us who live in it, and it is in us. We love it or hate… — Nina Berberova Association 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 suddenly appeared, as if with a slight push it detached itself out of the invisible into the visible.” quote by Nina Berberova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/047/nina-berberova-25943_cities_on-new-york-a-city-rose-before-me-it-was_1353178.jpg)
![“[On Paris:] It exists, constant, eternal, surrounding us who live in it, and it is in us. We love it or hate it, but we cannot escape it. It is a circle of associations in which man exists, being himself a circle of associations. Having entered it and come out of it we are not what we were before…” quote by Nina Berberova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7bf/nina-berberova-25943_association_on-paris-it-exists-constant-eternal-surr_1802822.jpg)