Author of quotes: Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov. Page 3

Without books and understanding still impossible. Because everything comes to us from antiquity, and antiquity alone can tell us or we only can hear it through the book. Therefore, performance against the "books" and "learning" poluchennyh our monks, becoming so bold a defiance of their spiritual academies, has something crazy and fraudulent in itself. The book they just "failed" and they hated it. They want to take or want to take the whole Church to prayer, custom, and traditions. Put, and stately and strong. But something you just have to know, and without knowledge can not do.

This botany so: the tenth plucked a rose, and nine have gone and only sniffed.
What can you do. God has so created. It is "not our morals", and cosmology.

Laughter is, in General disgraceful attitude to life - that's why I deny Gogol.
God! even to smile over your life is scary.
Life, all life, all life is divine.
And not to love life means to love God.
That's what all Gogol or all of the merits of Gogol is a sin.
Beautiful sin - not deny it. But who will insist on a great sin.

- Humor me, says the reader with the belly, taking "dead leaves".
- Why I'm here to entertain you. I'll let you in the face. You can best entertain.
(Rozanov and the reader)

Everything grows out of the contradictions, and indeed the contradiction is the root of life.

Requirements such as the requirement of marital chastity, the requirement of fidelity of the wife to her husband on what may be approved as pripisany: half spirit and spiritual virtues? But place spintus in sexum [the spirit in Paul (lat.).], and you will receive an Egyptian-Syrian "cult of the fall". How do you hold chastity, "loyalty womb female reproductive organ of the husband." We ordered, but the orders need to somehow explain and motivate. If "to bear, after all to give birth and change: how anyone, and I know of one case where the wife gave birth every year, the changing man "recklessly" (and he knew about it, and cried, and couldn't get a divorce "according to the laws of the Church" as the Church, change is not in front of witnesses, and in a locked room or hotel is not considered cheating).

Two cases I know when a man married "on the money" - and both ended an extraordinary happiness and full of love. <...> Tolstoy is the first to consider in life and described in "War and peace" (the marriage of Nicholas Rostov and Princess Marie bolkonskaya the). But this is often so. Love and happiness, obviously, can be born just from the "cohabitation" of sexual rapprochement between men and women, once "the money is counted". Then, while believed - obviously, love and affection were not. But then it went on "day after day", "trivia today, trivia tomorrow," fell to the husband and here the wife was frightened, bustled, just filled with bliss and care; trouble at work - she is consoled; he is her "prigolubit" during pregnancy, "watch out" from work, and from their pleasures: and, you see, was born the respect born of affection and finally a complete love.<...> Therefore it is not necessary particularly long "talk" about marriage, "postrojat theoretically, future happiness," - "poskoree to marry", just as the girl (or widow) "fancy", "choice", "I am pleased to talk to her". This prevents the "indissolubility" of marriage among Christians, which is generally all messed up, making the fear before "the eternal sufferer" (picture, - years, - bad marriage for all others). <...> But in General, the further - the state of marriage more tragic, sadder and scarier.

And from the world, from the Universe, from all "others" they turned around and signum that, by law, the instrument of this "gate" and "lock" this Holy abode, and there is "shame". - "Shame on you all" - except for "husband"; that is, do not touch, even the sight, even thought, even the "representation" and "concept" - what you and every other, and all the other people, the whole world - are irrelevant: because it belongs to my husband, and the whole Universe to him alone. <...> the family is "terrible". In the "pale", in a magical line that around her held God. Thus, "shame" is "distinction". This is the "fences" between the families, without which they turn into the street, into the crowd, and marriage in prostitution. That is, our streets and shopping. So-called in antiquity "the sacred prostitution", on the contrary, and was the first release from the wild indiscriminate intercourse of the sexes in our "sacred marriage", "married in Church", "Church bound". Without the "sacred prostitution" was not the origin of civilization, since civilization is impossible without family. The introduction of "priesthood" in the "prostitution" was the first ray of shedding "religion" in "family". The fact that she was just "sacred", it is separated from "ordinary" prostitution and then kept all the "separate" and "remove", narrowing in time and people, while moved first in the "many-ciate" and "much-married" (polyandry) marriage and finally, our "sole Church marriage". "Treason" in our marriage is a throwback to polygamy and polyandry.
"Shame" is "I not prostitute", "I'm not a prostitute". "I am not for everyone." The shame is on marriage. <...> Shame, marriage functions, fenced off, protected, drives away innocent.

Why are you stuck to my soul and stuck to the soul of every writer, that he should HATE the EMPEROR.
I stuck with the longing, like jackals, howling at the door. I don't want you, I don't want you. <...> I Russian. Leave me alone. Leave us, Russian, and not sneak up on us with a whisper:
- You're an EDUCATED MAN and a writer and should hate this vile government.
- I'm an educated man, even the Buckle read, but I RESPECT the GOVERNMENT and get the hell out. I don't think the government is sneaky and think you vile, disgusting hyenas.

Russian - eternal wands, bridesmaid... Speaking missionary language, "dirty girl" is the basis of all our European interests. "Wait for boyfriend from afar" - says the proverb girls. Never "groom" will not be found near by in the neighborhood. <...> Well, here are "from afar" and Russian "waiting for hers" (Spencer, Buckle). Wait someday Russian skrutit the head of any Negro philosopher. Revolution is some kind of hash for the Russian. Among is really meaningless, painful, desolate life.

Yevgeniya Ivanovna told me an amazing Moldovans saying: "When the woman whistles the mother of God weeps."

The pub is disgusting. If often impossible to live. But you can't deny that occasionally it is necessary. <...> It is necessary to remember and religious people, and religious, batistoni to allow a minute of the tavern into the life, manners and psychology. And then again for work.

... the religion of the eternally tormented soul; religion, destiny, our small and poor fate, Woe to our neighbors, all the suffering, the seeking of protection from this suffering, looking for help, looking for a "Live-in help of the most high"...
Lord, Lord: when you lie in bed at night and no lights, no tactile object is not torn in the eye, how well is "no" because God comes in the darkness and warms the soul even to the physical sensation of warmth from Him, and call Him, and hear Him, and He was always there...
Why people "don't believe in God", when it's so noticeable and always?..

In his own soul, I walk in the Garden of God. And considering that it grows with some detachment. The most soul I am a stranger. Who is "I"? I only clear that a lot of "I" in "I" and again in "I". And the interior looks at the others with thoughtfulness, but without the participation.