Life Quote by Vasily Grossman

“Everything that lives is unique. It is unimaginable that two people, or two briar-roses, should be identical . . . If you attempt to erase the peculiarities…

— Vasily Grossman

“There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven,…

— james salter

“To survive and be happy, Russians have so much to bury, to willfully ignore. Small wonder that the intensity of their pleasures and indulgences…

— Owen Matthews

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

— D. H. Lawrence

“In Russia, perhaps truth and tragedy were always intertwined.”

— Laura Rose

What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever…

— Melvyn Douglas

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

— Anonymous

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

“Entire civilizations in history had ceased to exist. How had life in them felt in the last decades and days? Russia and the Russians…

— Masha Gessen

“Human life is worth preserving. But human lives? They come and go like so much chaff, never tipping the scales." "What a remarkable calculation,"…

— Leigh Bardugo

“I want you to read ‘God Sees the Truth, but Waits,’ ” said Mother. “Tolstoy writes about a man, wrongly accused of a murder,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Independence isn't all it's cracked up to be, you know. What country could be more independent than Russia? And in Russia now there isn't…

— Tom Stoppard