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“Он любил и страдал. Он любил деньги и страдал от их недостатка.”
― Ilia Ilf, The Twelve Chairs

“- Кто, по-вашему, этот мощный старик? Это - гигант мысли, отец русской демократии и особа, приближенная к императору.”
― Ilia Ilf, The Twelve Chairs

“Всеми фибрами своего чемодана он стремился за границу”
― Илья Ильф

“Здесь Паша Эмильевич, обладавший сверхъестественным чутьем, понял, что сейчас его будут бить, может быть, даже ногами.”
― Илья Ильф, The Twelve Chairs

“- А теперь действовать, действовать и действовать! - сказал Остап, понизив голос до степени полной нелегальности.”
― Ilia Ilf, The Twelve Chairs

“Остап со вчерашнего дня еще ничего не ел. Поэтому красноречие его было необыкновенно.”
― Ilya Ilf, The Twelve Chairs

“It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Patriotism and its results--wars--give an enormous revenue to the newspaper trade, and profits to many other trades. Every writer, teacher, and professor is more secure in his place the more he preaches patriotism. Every Emperor and King obtains the more fame the more he is addicted to patriotism.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“The ruling classes have in their hands the army, money, the schools, the churches, and the press. In the schools, they kindle patriotism in the children by means of histories describing their own people as the best of all peoples and always in the right. Among adults they kindle it by spectacles, jubilees, monuments, and by a lying patriotic press. Above all, they inflame patriotism in this way: perpetrating every kind of harshness and injustice against other nations, they provoke in them enmity towards their own people, and then in turn exploit that enmity to embitter their people against the foreigner.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Patriotism and Government

“Выдуманное зло романтично, разнообразно. Реальное зло мрачно, монотонно, пустынно, скучно. Выдуманное добро скучно, реальное добро — всегда новое, чудесное, упоительное.”
― Симона Вейль

“I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses