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.

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.

Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?

No bad man can be a good poet.