"I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by an..."
- Nikolai Gogol
"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."
"It’s hard to say something about Pushkin to a person who doesn’t know anything about him. Pushkin is a great poet. Napoleon is not as great as Pushkin. Bismarck compared to Pushkin is a nobody. And th..."
- Daniil Kharms
"In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want"