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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 Benioff


#history #inspirational #jewish #jews #pessimism

Friendship is merely a glorified expression. In reality it is nothing but a reciprocal outpouring of slops.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#friendship

Have you seen a leaf, a leaf from a tree?" "I have. " "I saw one recently, a yellow one, with some green,decayed on the edges. Blown about by the wind. When I was 10 years old, I'd close my eyes on purpose, in winter, and imagine a leaf – green, bright, with veins, and the sun shining. I'd open my eyes and not believe it, because it was so good, then I'd close them again. " "What's that, an allegory?" "N-no... Why? Not an allegory, simply a leaf, one leaf. A leaf is good. Everything is good." "Everything? " "Everything. Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy; only because of that. It's everything, everything! Whoever learns will at once immediately become happy, that same moment. This mother-in-law will die and the girl won't remain – everything is good. I discovered suddenly. " "And if someone dies of hunger, or someone offends and dishonors the girl – is that good? " "Good. And if someone's head get smashed in for the child's sake, that's good, too; and if it doesn't get smashed in, that's good, too. Everything is good, everything. For all those who know that everything is good. If they knew it was good with them, it would be good with them, but as long as they don't know it's good with them, it will not be good with them. That's the whole thought, the whole, there isn't any more! " "And when did you find out that you were so happy? " "Last week, on Tuesday, no, Wednesday, because it was Wednesday by then, in the night.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#russian-literature #imagination

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.


Mikhail Baryshnikov


#feel #i #i feel #life #lot

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.


Mikhail Baryshnikov


#brooklyn #communities #friends #hang #i

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.


Mikhail Baryshnikov


#close #each #everyday #friends #get

For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.


Ernst Zundel


#british #countries #created #event #jewish

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!


Ivan Turgenev


#comfort #country #days #doubt #dreary

I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.


Emma Watson


#collections #dolls #i #like #places

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.


Tobias Wolff


#i #i love #last #love #russian






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