Creatures Quote by Faina Ranevskaya

“It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.”

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All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.

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You cannot cure sclerosis, but you can forget it.

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It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

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Optimism is lack of information.

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God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.

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Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide...And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.

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When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.

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Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

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“Everybody complain about their appearance and nobody about their brains.”

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Beauty is a horrible power.

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Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty…

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On should life his life in such a way that even bastards remember him.

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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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