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"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."

"And he who has no people has no God. You may be sure that all who cease to understand their own people and lose connection with them at once lose to the same extent the faith of their fathers, and become atheistic or indifferent."

"one had to perjure oneself and praise the peasant all the same for the sake of being progressive."

"Life is not a book, and this book is designed to show the mistake of thinking it is. Anna is not the heroine of a romantic novel with omens and foreshadowing: she only thinks she is."

It was we, Rus', who were your inspiration, your unfathomable beauty, your agelong enchantment! And we are all gone, gone, driven into exile by a crazed surveyor.
"The Wood-Sprite"