Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

Dear Jesus, do something.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.

She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.