December 2010
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“Medvedenko: Why is it you always wear black?
Masha: I’m in mourning for my...”
– The Seagull (via namelesshere)
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“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via ish07)
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“Dostoyevskiy described one of his mad characters as living and taking vengeance...”
– Tolstoy as told by Gorky in Reminiscences of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (via dostoyevsky)
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“But I’m drawn here to the lake like a seagull… My heart is full of you.”
– Nina, The Seagull (via gibaloo)
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“Easy money weighs light in the hand, and doesn’t give you the feeling you’ve...”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
(via toforgivedivine)
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“I felt that my dreams, my thoughts and prayers were live creatures, living there...”
– Leo Tolstoy, “Family Happiness” (via ryannapier)
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“And I really was happy, but I was tormented by the fact that this happiness did...”
– Leo Tolstoy, “Family Happiness” (via ryannapier)
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“I wanted feeling to direct us in life, and not life to direct our feeling.”
– Leo Tolstoy, “Family Happiness” (via ryannapier)
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“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the...”
– Nikolai Gogol (via tideland)
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“I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is...”
– Pechorin, in “Hero of Our Time” (via sloanemarie)
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“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that, if he lives wrongly,...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via jusilla)
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“A man comes along, sees her, and destroys her life because he has nothing better...”
– Anton Chekhov, The Seagull (via puddleducked)
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“Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness,...”
– Anton Chekhov (via motsdemeprise)
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“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”
– Anton Chekhov (via ikanow)
Александр Пушкин, "Румяный критик мой..", fall of...
Румяный критик мой, насмешник толстопузый, Готовый век трунить над нашей томной музой, Поди-ка ты сюда, присядь-ка ты со мной, Попробуй, сладим ли с проклятою хандрой. Смотри, какой здесь вид: избушек ряд убогий, За ними чернозем, равнины скат отлогий, Над ними серых туч густая полоса. Где нивы светлые? где темные леса? Где речка? На дворе у низкого забора Два бедных деревца стоят в отраду взора,...
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“It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most...”
– Nikolai Gogol (via quotationsblog)
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“It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of...”
– Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol (via sixstepsback)
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“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
– Mikhail Bulgakov (via nakedquotations)
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