But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

... any country that is not careful can be seized.

Boris Yeltsin's period was characterized by a no less irresponsible attitude to people's lives, but in other ways. In his haste to have private rather than state ownership as quickly as possible, Yeltsin started a mass, multi-billion-dollar fire sale of the national patrimony. Wanting to gain the support of regional leaders, Yeltsin called directly for separatism and passed laws that encouraged and empowered the collapse of the Russian state. This deprived Russia of its historical role for which it had worked so hard, and lowered its standing in the international community.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.