Faithful Ruslan Quotes

“Divided, cut up by borders, frontiers, fences and prohibitions, our wretched planet flew on, spinning into the icy emptiness of space, toward the sharp pinpoints of those stars --and nowhere on its surface was there a place where someone was not keeping someone else behind bars; where one lot of prisoners, helped by other prisoners, was not guarding a third set of prisoners --and themselves-- against the risk of taking an undesirable, lethally dangerous gulp of the bright blue air of freedom.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“Sahibi artık onu sevmiyordu. Bu keşif bir köpeği her zaman derinden sarsar, tüm varlığını kederle doldurur, yaşama isteğinden yoksun bırakır.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“Ruslan bilmiyordu ama peki biz eğitimli insanlar, yıkıma doğru giden ilk adımın daima mağrur bir şekilde üzerinden geçtiğimiz bir eşik olduğunu biliyor muyuz?”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“It was all bad, very bad. And the worst of it was not that they had ceased waiting, but that they had ceased to have faith.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“He ran on, and the stars ran with him. When he stopped, the stars stopped, too, patiently waiting for him. He knew this trick of theirs already, but it always thrilled him.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“A person who insists that everyone else should live the way he lives isn't clever. And a people that thinks the same way isn't clever either. That people will never be happy, even though they may sing songs from morning till night saying how happy they are.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“Korkusu boşunaydı: Ruslan aralarındaki tüm farklılıklara rağmen Servet'in kendi cinsinden olduğunu biliyordu ve doğası gereği kendi cinsinden birini avlaması -doğayı fethetmeleriyle gururlanan iki ayaklıların bu en sevdiği uğraş- yasaktı.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“Asla!" diye karşılık verdi eğitmen onlara, "Bir köpek asla kendisini gerçekten seven birisini ısırmaz. Böyle bir kötülüğü ancak insan yapabilir.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“It seems improbable, unless one knows how obstinately, purposefully and unerringly any stricken animal will find its way to the same place where in the past it has endured suffering and recovered.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“He knew there was no one to restrain him now, and he knew that he was beaten. But an animal will always fight for its life to the bitter end; no animal ever licks the boots of his executioner.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“He did, however, know another feeling, one that had been taught to him by man: duty-- which we, who hardly know the meaning of the word ourselves, had imprinted on his consciousness-- and it was duty that obliged Ruslan to raise himself up.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“...they took him, in his frenzy of love, for a mad dog that had broken loose-- and he really looked terrifying: so emaciated that his ribs showed, a yellow film over his eyes, panting hoarsely and with his loose collar clinking as he ran headlong with frightening single-mindedness toward his unknown goal.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“I thought I told you to get lost.'... 'And I don't ever want to see you again-- got it?'

It was not that Ruslan did not understand the order; he would not have accepted it for anything in the world. For the first time he was being ordered to go in quite the wrong direction.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“Ruslan was seized by a fit of shivering and an uncontrollable yawn pulled his jaws wide open, but he mastered himself and stood up. he could not do otherwise. When the worst happens, an animal always takes it standing up. He realized that it had come to him now, on this white day, that it had already come a minute ago and there was no avoiding what was to follow. No one was to blame. Whose fault was it that he had ceased to understand what was happening?

He knew well what occurred whenever a dog stopped understanding what was happening. No amount of previous good service could save him.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“He pressed against Master's greatcoat and rubbed him with his shoulder, which meant that he understood everything and was ready for anything, even to die if need be. Ruslan had not yet had to face death himself, but he had seen men and dogs die. There was nothing more terrible, but if he was with Master, it was another matter: that he could stand.”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan

“But were even the masters his friends? Only the Instructor, who had eventually turned into a dog, had been a real friend — and what had he been barking that night, to the howling of the snowstorm? He had said: 'Let us leave them. They are no brothers of ours. They are enemies. Every last one of them is an enemy!”
― Georgi Vladimov, Faithful Ruslan