“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
― Correction
― Correction
“Pushkin loved to throw rocks. As soon as he saw a rock, he would throw it. Sometimes he became so excited that he stood, all red in the face, waving his arms, throwing rocks, simply something awful.
Pushkin had four sons, all idiots. One didn't even know how to sit in a chair and fell off all the time. Pushkin himself also sat on a chair rather badly. It was simply killing: they sat at the table; at one end, Pushkin kept falling off his chair continually, and at the other end, his son. Simply enough to make one split one's sides with laughter.”
― The Man with the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurd
Pushkin had four sons, all idiots. One didn't even know how to sit in a chair and fell off all the time. Pushkin himself also sat on a chair rather badly. It was simply killing: they sat at the table; at one end, Pushkin kept falling off his chair continually, and at the other end, his son. Simply enough to make one split one's sides with laughter.”
― The Man with the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurd
“The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
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“One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.”
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“Once, at the dacha, years ago,” she said, “we all decided to go mushroom picking, and our neighbor Vera—she was at least eighty at the time—dashed over to the mirror and started painting her lips. My mother said to her, ‘Aunt Vera, we are going to the woods; who’s the lipstick for?’ And Vera replied—I’ll never forget it—‘Who knows? Maybe that’s where it will happen!”
― There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
― There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
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