Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.