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Here we have pear trees in bloom and apple trees unfolding. The weather was lovely, warm and even the rain, which was so desirable, passed on the third day. The forest is opposite, across the river; greenery - like in popular prints. All around, winter trees are beginning to take on a silvery tint. In the forest, nightingales sing, other birds echo them... Various ordinary people pester me so much with requests, with bills, peddlers with goods, that every minute I am ready to loudly tell them: Let's go
Quote Explanation: Ilya Repin, from a letter to Vladimir Stasov, 1893.
The idea that our neighbor's grass is always greener can make our lives fruitless.
If a miracle happens, I’ll be with you in two weeks!
Quote Explanation: Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter to Lilya Brik, 1918.
I believe that the acting profession is akin to the priest’s profession - if you have the opportunity to console and bless a person, you should do it. This may sound banal, but it seems to me that an actor should bring goodness, both on stage and in life.
A roach in a tub is better than a pike in a lake.
Quote Explanation: Analogue: a bird in the hand is better than a pie in the sky.
Despite the evidence of death, all people live as if they will not die. Human life is like attacking a fortress that contains immortality.
Quote Explanation: Diary. 1939
Love for a person is almost a direct comparison with love for God. Everyone wants a beautiful life - but always forgets to appreciate the soul in it.
Love is a good feeling, but it can be too strong. Love is like a wild horse that has no runners. If you ever sit astride her, you will never be able to get off and you will never be able to conquer her. She will carry you where you don’t want to go, and throw you to the ground when you don’t expect it.
- Sort of. Good comparison. Only the prosecutor punishes, and the feuilletonist ridicules.
Life is like the steps of a child whom the mother has released from her embrace and will receive again.
Spiritual luggage, unlike ordinary luggage, has an amazing property: the larger it is, the easier it is for a person to walk along the roads of life.
An artist who knows how to take advantage of these properties is like a conductor who can wave his baton... accurately produce a thousand sounds.
What is the greatest good and evil? - two ends of an invisible chain that converge, moving away from each other.
One is a woman, and those who gather together are women; so is the Russian intelligentsia, when together it’s like a women’s bazaar.
A person’s value is in himself, and not in how he looks compared to others.
