Quotes by Russian Authors

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

Anton Chekhov

But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all—but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now—this very instant—your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man—and that this is certain, certain!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Leave your incidental Dick.

Vladimir Nabokov