How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.
Yevgeny YevtushenkoMots clés poetry sinners sins confessor russian
Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.
Fyodor DostoevskyMots clés inspirational sacrifice russian common-place
They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.
Anthony BourdainMots clés drinking vodka alcohol russia drunk liquor russian
My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMots clés russian prisoner concentration-camp zek
Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.
Semen FrankMots clés ideas culture russian vekhi
On the Russian revolutionaries:
To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.
Mots clés revolution sacrifice russian
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
Alexander PushkinBut man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.
Fyodor DostoevskyMots clés fiction russian-literature 19th-century russian
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I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.
David BenioffMots clés inspirational pessimism history story world-war-ii jewish jews russia russian ww2 city-of-thieves
That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.
David BenioffMots clés inspirational pessimism history story world-war-ii jewish jews russia russian ww2 city-of-thieves
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