Habits Quote by Natan Sharansky

“Lying in his parents' house, in the middle of the night, she told him the whole story, about meeting Dimitri on a bus, finding…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

— D. H. Lawrence

“And, pointing a trembling finger at Bonetti-Alderighi, with an expression of indignation and a quasi-castrato voice, he launched into the climax: Ah, so you,…

— Andrea Camilleri

“He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“To the door of an inn in the provincial town of N. there drew up a smart britchka—a light spring-carriage of the sort affected…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.”

— Olli Jalonen

“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He had murdered his wife in a fit of jealousy, and immediately given himself up to the police. (This had considerably mitigated his sentence).…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Gogol was usually the leading social poet, while Dostoyevsky usually the leading psychological poet. The former is known as the representative of the contemporary…

— Valerian Maykov

“Corrupt and often cruel in his lust, like some noxious insect, Fyodor Pavlovitch was sometimes, in moments of drunkenness,overcome by superstitious terror and a…

— Dostoevsky

“He rrraped herrr,” the beast within him shrieked from deep in his gut, shaking everything but my resolve. Pietr stepped back, putting his hands…

— Shannon Delany