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"Things weren't too good with money, but money is money and happiness is something else."

“—Something is bound to happen. And soon. It’s not a revolution yet, but you can smell the ozone in the air. Everyone is waiting: Who, what, when?
—I just started living well. Let me live a little!!!
—Russia is sleeping. Don’t even dream about change.”

“You know how beach romances go, they don’t last long. They’re flings. Like life, but in miniature. They sparkle and fade, it’s pretty. Like what we don’t get to have in real life and what we really want. That’s why people love traveling so much…meeting people…”

“Doing mundane activities side by side with death…it’s dangerous…You risk confusing the two”

“Life in Russia is like fiction. But I want to live here, among Soviet people…And watch Soviet films. They might be full of lies and made-to-order for the government, but I love them.”

“Say something during the day, and the birds will hear—speak at night, and the mice will.”

“We don’t want to suffer. That’s not what our lives are about. We haven’t understood a thing about the world we’d only recently been living in and yet we’re already living in a new one.”