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большой трехэтажный каменный дом, весь белый, как мел, вероятно для изображения чистоты душ помещавшихся в нем должностей;
Николай Васильевич Гоголь • Мертвые души (Том первый) (Russian Edition)
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

‘Hang your reforms!’ said Mr Chichely. ‘There’s no greater humbug in the world. You never hear of a reform, but it means some trick to put in new men.
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
“You’re not an evil man, you’re just twisted,”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay
одни воробьиные яйца, из которых заказывал себе яичницу, потому что больше в целом доме никто ее не ел.
Николай Васильевич Гоголь • Мертвые души (Том первый) (Russian Edition)
Stories (The greatest masterpieces of Russian literature) (Illustrated)
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For not only is an odd man “not always” a particular and isolated case, but, on the contrary, it sometimes happens that it is precisely he, perhaps, who bears within himself the heart of the whole, while the other people of his epoch have all for some reason been torn away from it for a time by some kind of flooding wind.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers.