Book: Diary of infidelity

Once, before Pushkin, the romantic name was Nina. The heroine of the drama "Masquerade" and other heroines prone to fatal passions, all of them was Nina. But Pushkin was the first who called the heroine Tatiana, it was Tatiana vernacular name...

... There are positive and negative emotions. The person experiences negative emotions three times more often than positive - it's a shame, of course, but we are so constituted. Man in stable psychological condition negative emotions still interspersed positive. Or at least all the negative emotions are different, for example, fear, then horror, then despair. But first-graders are experiencing only one emotion during the entire school day is fear. Four hours a day, seven years a child is afraid. This is unpleasant information for us, but what it is a scientific fact...

... Every profession has its trade secrets.

People mostly primitive.

When a person is in stress, he has exacerbated all the feelings.

Russia - a criminal country, Peter - a criminal page, the antique trade and criminal business...

And the one who donates, always embittered for someone that sacrifices himself...

Hypothetically, you can throw the bait in the bathroom and pull out a pike.

Tchaikovsky all his life was afraid that he might fall off the head, so when he conducted the orchestra, just in case he was holding his head with his hand.

I always think it's strange that some great men lived at one time and could easily appear in the store, at a party...

Typical opportunistic behavior - the desire to do everything out of spite.

Flaubert to Maupassant was forbidden to publish his stories. Then this was allowed, and the first story that he allowed to publish Maupassant, called "Chunk". And it turned out that Maupassant once and immediately in the classics.

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

In General, the people are beautiful, fashionably dressed, the bulk of them live in freedom...