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“Knowing that you betrayed me, I know you will betray me, but I don't love you with the kind of love that can be betrayed”
― Nikolai Punin

tags: love, modernism

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#2

“Even if guilt is not originary, it is forever radical. It is the adherence of guilt to the human condition that, it seems, renders it not only unforgivable in fact, but unforgivable by right. Stripping guilt from our existence would, it seems, destroy the existence totally”
― Paul Ricœur

tags: existence, guilt, philosophy

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“ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάντατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες

(Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life.)”
― Heraclitus

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#4

“By riding public transportation and reading newspapers, we become like the others, sinking further and further into the they”
― Heidegger, Martin

tags: individualism, individuality, public-transport

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#5

“But what would it have cost you to make people happy and agree that you'd had an affair?" She replied very gravely, "I have lived my own unique life, and my life lacks nothing; it has no need to borrow from other people”
― Anna Akhmatova

tags: life, nayman, unique

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#6

“Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines. The latter are so indubitably useful that we cannot see even a possibility of getting rid of them or our subservience to them. Man is bound to follow the adventurous promptings of his scientific and inventive mind and to admire himself for his splendid achievements. At the same time, his genius shows the uncanny tendency to invent things that become more and more dangerous, because they represent better and better means for wholesale suicide.”
― Karl Jung

tags: dominate, nature, symbols

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#7

“Unintentional beauty. Another way of putting it might be 'beauty by mistake'. Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake. Beauty by mistake - the final phase in the history of beauty.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: beauty, history

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#8

“And without fame, a man must spend his life
Only to leave such traces upon earth
As smoke leaves in the air, or foam in the sea”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: fame, smoke

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#9

“As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.”
― Martin Heidegger

tags: birth, death, philosophy

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#10

“On Hemingway: Have you noticed how lonely all people in his works are - no relatives, no family?”
― Anna Akhmatova

tags: hemingway, loneliness, lonely

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#11

“On his life between 1926-1927: "like a bad Russian novel”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: novel, russian-literature

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#12

“Could Beatrice have written like Dante,
or Laura have glorified love's pain?
I set the style for women's speech.
God help me shut them up again!”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: beatrice, dante, feminism, laura, petrarch, women

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#13

“Dostoyevsky knew a lot but not everything. He, for instance, thought that if you kill a human you'll turn into Raskolnikov. But we know now that one can kill five - ten, one hundred people - and go to the theatre in the evening.”
― Anna Akhmatova

tags: dostoyevsky, guilt, kill, raskolnikov, theatre

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#14

“Now prisoners will come back home, and two Russias will look each other in the eye,
the one that put in prison and
the one that was put in prison.”
― Anna Akhmatova

tags: prison, prisoners, repressions, russia, stalin

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#15

“how useless laws are, and how omnipotent morals are”
― Edmond Goncourt (de), Jules de Goncourt

tags: laws, morals

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#16

“Statistics is the main of all inaccurate studies”
― Edmond Goncourt (de), Jules de Goncourt

tags: inaccuracy, paradox, statistics

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#17

“We have forgotten how to sleep with a woman without any smarty-pantsness”
― Edmond Goncourt (de), Jules de Goncourt

tags: sex, smarty-pants, woman

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#18

“The fact that the world exists in time and not only in space means that the world is not completed, that its creation has not yet reached its crowning consummation, that it continues to be created”
― Berdyaev N

tags: philosophy, space, time

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#19

“God is present and God acts only in freedom. He is not present nor does he act in necessity. God is to be found in truth, in Goodness, Beauty and Love, but not in the world order”
― Nikolai Berdyaev

tags: freedom, god, philosophy, world-order

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#20

“There are no such things as nations, States and societies existing as collective common realities which stand on a higher level than personality and turn it into part of themselves.”
― Nikolai Berdyaev

tags: collective, individual, philosphy, state

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#21

“Each one of us shares in the destiny of the world and humanity, and must accept his own portion of the general responsibility”
― Nikolai Berdyaev

tags: destiny, philosophy, responsibility

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#22

“the elaboration of a religious philosophy of history would appear to be the specific mission of Russian philosophical thought”
― Nikolai Berdyaev, The Meaning of History

tags: history, philosophy, religion, russian-philosophy

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#23

“History is not an objective empirical datum, it is a myth.”
― Nikolai Berdyaev, The Meaning of History

tags: history, myth, philosophy

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#24

“To understand the interior relationship between God and man as a drama of freely-given love is to lay bare the sources of history”
― Nikolai Berdyaev, The Meaning of History

tags: god, history, love, philosophy

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#25

“Modern man, in pursuit of his aim to dominate the world, has become its slave”
― Nikolai Berdyaev, The Meaning of History

tags: modernity, philosophy, slave

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#26

“The Russians are a people in the highest degree polarized: they are a conglomeration of contradictions”
― Nikolai Berdyaev

tags: contradictions, philosophy, russia

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#27

“The Russian Intelligentsia is a quite special and peculiar thing; as a spiritual and a social form it existed only in Russia. The Intelligentsia was an idealistic class, a class of people wholly influenced by ideas and ready to face prison, hard labour and death for the sake of their ideas”
― Nikolai Berdyaev

tags: history, intelligentsia, philosophy, russia

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#28

“Bergson considered poetry to be born of intuition, and words that were “at first, only signals” are thus converted into instruments of art. Russian modernists treat words in much the same way”
― Hilary L. Fink

tags: bergson, modernism, russia

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#29

“Interestingly, the nature of the Russian language itself – its use of perfective and imperfective aspect – reflects a very Bergsonian duality between objective and subjective time, or between time considered spatially and time as duration”
― Hilary L. Fink

tags: bergson, duration, russia, russian, space

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#30

“Bergson's emphasis on the importance of art for the clear seeing of reality paralleled the modernist call for new modes of artistic perception and expression”
― Hilary L. Fink

tags: art, bergson, modernism

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