Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?