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Indeed, Pushkin’s cartoonish omnipresence is one of the wonderful things about Russian literary culture.
Elif Batuman • The Possessed
‘I’m amazed at the clairvoyance of people in love,’ she added with a smile and so that he alone could hear: ‘She wasn’t there. But drop in after the opera.’
Leo Tolstoy • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
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Mnemosyne I – Edgar Lissel
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“As I take pleasure in all the beauties of this house of God, when the spell of the many-colored stones has torn me from outside concerns and a worthy meditation has led me to reflect, transferring that which is material to that which is immaterial, on the diversity of the sacred virtues, then I seem to find myself, so to speak, in a strange region
... See moreWilliam Weaver • The Name of the Rose
Do not be upset with people, do not take offense at their wrongs. Forgive the dead man in your heart for all the harm he did you; be reconciled with him truly. If you are repentant, it means that you love. And if you love, you already belong to God …
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
But in what temple is there such a font as the ocean; such a vault as that of the heavens; such lamps as the sun, moon, and stars; or any figures to be compared with living, loving, mutually-helpful men?