She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

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

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.

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.