Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“Oh no.' Straight raised his eyes to me, and a slight smile touched the corners of his lips. 'A philosophy of life…

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“Here, in the city, associations tend to be strangely uniform: An association by similarity (especially an inner, essential similarity) is rare and…

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“Why frighten little children with the dark when one can quiet them with it and lead them into dreams?”

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“In short, you had that particular ability which I never had: the ability to be alive.”

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“A dingily bilious sun was seeping through a tent of black clouds.”

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“Writers, in essence, are professional word tamers; if the words walking down the lines were living creatures, they would surely fear and…

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“Muscovites see clearly but write muddily; the eye grasps but the fingers splay.”

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“In a certain present there is more of the future than in the future itself.”

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“Hiding my half existence behind the opaque walls of my skull, concealing it like a shameful disease, I did not consider the…

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“Wherever you look, everything is in a row: a seven-story pile abutting a three-windowed log hut hard by a fantastical L-shaped mansion;…

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“At the time I...loved someone. Now I wouldn't know how.”

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“People are ignorant of what any street clock knows. Why? Because the crack that cleaves existence also swallows their existence-reflecting consciousnesses. Thrown…

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“Quantin crept closer to the knoll. A pungent smell passed through his nostrils up into his brain. Attracted by the poppies' scarlet…

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“...as I was sifting through a heap of old and new "identity cards," I noticed that something was missing: my identity.”

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“But it's fair to say that the war's [WWI] dialectic forced those who were more or less alive to go to their…

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“A dingily bilious sun was seeping through a tent of black clouds. Passersby, spitefully elbowing elbows, were rushing along the pavement. People…

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky