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"I love Tolstoy because you read about his marriage, and it's like "wow, he doesn't know anything about women", and then you read anything written by Tolstoy, and it's like "wow, nobody understands women better than he does"" — Aug 10, 2026 07:51PM
"I love Tolstoy because you read about his marriage, and it's like "wow, he doesn't know anything about women", and then you read anything written by Tolstoy, and it's like "wow, nobody understands women better than he does"" — Aug 10, 2026 07:51PM
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"A big heap of coal was piled. Two zeks were digging into it, eagerly seeking something there. When they found it, they tried it in their teeth. Then they sat themselves down and each ate a similar black-gray lump. "What are you eating there, fellows?" "It's sea clay. It doesn't do any good, but it doesn't do harm either. And if you add a kilo of it a day to your rations, it's as if you had really eaten." — Jul 22, 2025 03:10AM
"A big heap of coal was piled. Two zeks were digging into it, eagerly seeking something there. When they found it, they tried it in their teeth. Then they sat themselves down and each ate a similar black-gray lump. "What are you eating there, fellows?" "It's sea clay. It doesn't do any good, but it doesn't do harm either. And if you add a kilo of it a day to your rations, it's as if you had really eaten." — Jul 22, 2025 03:10AM
“People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit, or paradise will not be paradise for them.”
― Eugene Onegin
― Eugene Onegin
“In broad daylight it's terrible for a man to face his death; but when you're asleep it ought to be easy enough....”
― And Quiet Flows the Don
― And Quiet Flows the Don
“We’ve got to have forbidden fruit, Or Eden’s joys for us are moot.”
― Eugene Onegin
― Eugene Onegin
“Kolyma is Auschwitz without the ovens.”
― Kolyma Tales
― Kolyma Tales
“If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever.”
― Kolyma Tales
― Kolyma Tales
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