Russia Quotes

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That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young

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.

History Inspirational Pessimism Russia Story Jews World War Ii Russian City Of Thieves Jewish Ww2

?I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and th

?I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.

History Inspirational Pessimism Russia Story Jews World War Ii Russian City Of Thieves Jewish Ww2

I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess.

I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am.

Life Inspirational Self Russia Royalty Russian Revolution Anastasia Otma Romanovs Tsar Nicholas

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn mi

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Leo Tolstoy Russia Literature Family Happiness

But there was another class of people, the real people. To t

But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else.

Humor Funny Society Russia Popularity

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.

Nature Language Russia