Kaz

“...во всех областях жизни - в области государственного строительства, общественной организации, экономической деятельности и культурного творчества - Россия в предвоенную эпоху быстро и успешно шла вперед, изживая свою отсталость и свои недостатки. Война и революция оборвали эту линию восходящего развития.”
― Sergei G. Pushkarev, Россия в ХІХ веке

“Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ... a hereditary monarchy, wonderfully trained, in duty and in leadership which understands example, which is always there, which is above politics, for which the whole nation has an affection and which is a symbol of patriotism.”
― Sally Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

“If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair