An organ grinder leading a trained fox and a dog. Ivan Turgenev’s drawing in his sketchbook, 1834
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“In all Petersburg there was not a human being to whom he could express what he was feeling, who would feel for him, not as a high official, not as a member of society, but simply as a suffering man; indeed he had not such a one in the whole world.” — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (via greatrelease)
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” — The Lower Depths and Other Plays, Maxim Gorky (via fromliterature)
Bulgakov as a student
Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita
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Pushkin
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“And reading my own life with loathing, I tremble and curse.” — Pushkin, from the epigraph of Anne Sexton’s “Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems (1971)” (via batarde)
“I had no first love. I began with the second.” — Ivan Turgenev, First Love (via minutelovestories)
Ilya Repin - Turgenev
“It’s the petty ones that see the pettiness in others.” — Luka Petrovich, Sketches from a Hunter’s Album (via kistlercommons)
Master and Margarita in Finnish (titled Satan comes to Moscow)
“We lost because we told ourselves we lost.” — Leo Tolstoy (via honestyisadisease)
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“Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.” — Anton Chekhov (via myrubbersoul)
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