All Quotes By Tag: Russian
“How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people’s sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.”
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“One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.”
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