Quotes by Vasili Rozanov

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To imagine is easier than to work, here is the source of the emergence of socialism (at least Russian socialism).

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Society, those around us, shrink our soul, they don't enrich it. Only the most intimate and rarest sympathy "enriches" him, just being in "good understanding" and of "one thought." Such sympathies you find one or two in your whole life. In them, the soul flourishes. I'm looking for her. And run away from the crowd or avoid it.

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Writing is a destiny. The writing is fatum. The writing is a misfortune.

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Vice is picturesque, and virtue is so effaced. What horrors are these?

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The life of the Russians is also dirty and mediocre, but, in a way, pleasant. The latter you are afraid of losing, because losing it "everything goes to waste". You are afraid of losing something unique and unrepeatable. Maybe it will be even better in the future, but no, you only want this one...

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Socialism will pass as disharmony. Any disharmony will disappear once and for all. And socialism is a storm, rain and wind...

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Style is the spirit of things.

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The essence of prayer is the recognition of your deepest helplessness, your deepest deep mediocrity. Prayer begins where "I cannot"; where "I can," prayer has no place.

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Only pain reveals our sublime and holiness. Until we get to pain, there is beauty, goodness, even greatness. But never the sublime or the holy.

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What is "the writer"? Abandoned children, forgotten wife and vanity, vanity... An interesting guy.

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Paganism - morning, Christianity - evening. It may not be morning, may this be the last evening?

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We are born for love. To the extent that we have not given love, to the same extent we suffer on earth. To the extent that we have given love, to the same extent we will be punished in the other world.

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We ourselves perish when we judge the clergy. Without the clergy, the people died. The clergy protect his soul.

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Our people may be bad, but they are still our people, and that explains everything.

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All educational institutions for women train nuns in successful cases, and prostitutes in unsuccessful cases. The notions of wife and mother do not cross their minds.

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The universe is a courtship. And when the footsteps stop, the world will also cease to exist. Even now only silence is the twilight of the world.

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Compassion is the part of small things. This is why I love the little things.

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People are like flowers that wither. It's autumn and there's nothing left. How frightening this "no" is. How scary autumn is.

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How do I relate to the younger generation? In no way. I am not thinking. I rarely think. But I always feel sorry for her. She is an orphan.

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He who has not known misfortune does not know religion.

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Love is a pain. He who is not sick of someone, does not love that someone either.

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People who are in no hurry are God's people. People who do not set themselves any goal - they are also God's people.

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The world lives with great ideals. The world in general is an ideal, as are the "circles" of history and the epicycle of the planets.

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I am probably not in disagreement with the man, but only with the literature. It is terrible to disagree with the man, while with literature there is nothing special.

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Paganism represents the childhood of mankind, and childhood, in the life of each of us, is his natural paganism. So that we pass "among the ancient gods" and know them instinctively.