#russian

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract something equally edifying and then move on. That's how to get on in life. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#equality

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#equality

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. ↗

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#russian #sacrifice #faith

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

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight. ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

#russian-poetry #tsvetaeva #wisdom #freedom

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#friendship

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone? ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

#poetry #power #russian-author #writing #inspirational

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 Dostoyevsky

#inspirational #russian #sacrifice #inspirational

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#literature #nikolai-gogol #russian-literature #inspirational

Here's how I used to think you made a book: a poet comes along, mouth half open, inspired, then suddenly the idiot bursts into song - fancy that! ↗

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

#russian-poetry #inspirational