Quotes by russian authors

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lying Must Principle Inexorably Method His Anyone Proclaimed Choose Who Violence
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Words Everything Some Some Things Lead Name Beyond Us Realm Things
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Man Be Happy Happy Long Nothing He Him Stop Chooses
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. Anatoly Rybakov
Death Man Problem Problems No Problem
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. Anton Chekhov
Tired Wife Medicine Other Spend Lawful Mistress Get Literature Medical Night
Only entropy comes easy. Anton Chekhov
Easy Only Entropy
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. Anton Chekhov
You Doctors Too Only Lawyers Only Difference Merely Rob Same Difference Whereas
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. Anton Chekhov
Faith People Matter Year Unfair Unjust Else State Extreme Characterized Embittered Corrupt More More Than Anything He Over Him Fairness How Than Lack May Anything Anything Else Placed Loves Convict
Evil requires the sanction of the victim. Ayn Rand
Evil Victim Sanction Requires
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. Ayn Rand
God Faith Man Power Definition Only He Conceive Beyond Being Whose
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. Boris Pasternak
Man Live Born Prepare
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. Boris Pasternak
Truth Men Myth Power Infallibility Anxious Establish Ignore Utmost
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors. Constantin Stanislavski
Remember Only Small Parts Actor
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony. Emma Goldman
Great Man Harmony Anarchism Liberator Arbiter Individual Him Forces Social Held Captive Phantoms Two
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. Emma Goldman
Women Open Always Mouths Keep Shut Need
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man Fear Mind Every Tell Himself His Decent Afraid Decent Man Stored Which Such Things Even Away Things Number
Realists do not fear the results of their study. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fear Results Study Realists
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Money Worth Gentleman Beneath Everything Must About Emotion Troubling He Real Loses Owns Far Show Even Hardly
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Work Must Spirit Poetry Write Impression Tranquility Order Novel
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. Helena Blavatsky
Nature Science Men Difficulty Spirits Prevents Divine Well Materialism Chief Which Believing
Sometimes I wake up and think I look horrible. And sometimes I see a strong woman. Irina Shayk
Woman Strong Sometimes Wake Up Think See Strong Woman Horrible Look Wake Up
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. Isaiah Berlin
Positive Ignorance Injustice Goals Collective Men Poverty Revolution Fighting Live Evils Only Variety Vast Individual Seldom Times Cured Reform May Predictable Them Incompatible Slavery
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. Leo Tolstoy
God Words Men Approbation Only Between Always Chief Intended Done Difference Deeds
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. Leo Tolstoy
Man Humanity Aims Attainment Unconscious Instrument Himself Historic Man Lives Lives Universal
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. Leo Tolstoy
Style Whatever Wears Never He Opinion Just Happens Chooses
We lost because we told ourselves we lost. Leo Tolstoy
Lost Ourselves Because
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