Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov Quotes

“He married, but not happily. He hated his wife for breathing with lungs, which crayfish do not possess. He divorced his wife – and spent the rest of his life in the service of an idea.”
― Robert Chandler, Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov

“We’re asleep yet not asleep. We are thinking a strange thought, Thinking we are to be slaughtered, That cranberry branches are burning, That cauldrons are steaming, That steel knives are being sharpened.”
― Robert Chandler, Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov