January 2010
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“How nice it is to be able to verify with one’s own eyes the success of our...”
– Tchaikovsky in a letter to Nadezhda von Meck, 19/31 May 1886, from Paris, from the great Tchaikovsky Research.
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“My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials...”
– Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
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“To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him....”
– Anton Chekhov
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“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.”
– Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done?
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“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
– Lev Tolstoy, War and Peace (Part One, IV) (via byronic)
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“The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.”
– Aleksandr Pushkin,The Hero ll. 64-65, quoted in Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov.
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“If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there...”
– Tolstoy (via loveandzombies)
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“In the course of reading he became more and more melancholy and finally became...”
– Gogol on Alexander Pushkin in Four Letters Concerning Dead Souls (1843).
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The Dream
In noon’s blaze in a dale of Dagestan, A bullet in my breast, my body lay. My wound was deep and fresh with rising smoke. My blood was dripping drop by drop away. I lay alone upon the valley sands. Clustered above my head, the cliffs were steep With yellowed summits scorched beneath the sun That now scorched me—but I was dead asleep. And in my dream I saw a feast back home With torches set for...
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Well meet in Russian Literature Fourth Floor...
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“If it is so painful to love and to be charged with this electric current, how...”
– Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
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“We all come out from Gogol’s ‘Overcoat’.”
– Dostoyevsky, assuming Gogol’s influence at russian literature. (via dostoyevsky)