I'm a bad Jew, a bad Russian, a bad everything.
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.
There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.