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“…Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.”
― Fathers and Sons
― Fathers and Sons
“We still, alas, cannot forestall it-
This dreadful ailment's heavy toll;
The spleen is what the English call it,
We call it simply, Russian soul.”
― Eugene Onegin
This dreadful ailment's heavy toll;
The spleen is what the English call it,
We call it simply, Russian soul.”
― Eugene Onegin
“Şi iar cuprins de trândăvie, Cu suflet gol şi răvăşit, Se-aşază lacom el să fie De minţi străine instruit. Înşiră cărţi pe etajere, Romane seci şi efemere, Cu conţinut şi sterp şi-anost Citeşte mult şi fără rost. Dar un urât de moarte-l paşte: Ici se agită-o pocitură, Colea o nouă secătură. Femei şi cărţi îl fac să caşte; Şi peste tomurile grele, Tronând în praf, a tras perdele. Scăpând de-a lumii grea povară, Ca el, fugind de vălmăşag, M-atrase prietenia-i rară Şi chipul său atât de drag: Cu însuşirea-i spre visare Şi înclinările-i bizare; La minte rece şi tăios, Eu învrăjbit, el neguros, Ne-am potrivit în patimi jocul.”
― Eugene Onegin
― Eugene Onegin
“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
“It was late spring when Marya Morevna slid her brass key into the lock of the house on Dzerzhinskaya Street, feeling it slide, too, between her own ribs, and open her like a reliquary full of old, nameless bones.”
― Deathless
― Deathless
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