The Cathedral Quotes

“Хто посадить дерево — того і внуки згадають. Хто зламає — того й діти проклянуть”
― Олесь Гончар, Собор

“These conversations ended various ways: one could lose, but also one could make gains, win, emerge from the office a worker of a different specific gravity: there, elements transformed before one's eyes. Loboda knew that the secretary was a man of tempestuous nature, capable of unpredictable decisions. He had to act, so as not to give him a single opportunity.”
― Oles Honchar, The Cathedral

“At night the cathedral becomes younger. The wrinkles of time cannot be seen upon it, and it seems to return to its Cossack youth, when it rose from the rushes in a youthful blossoming of beauty and shone for the first time in these steppes with the heavenly hemispheres of its domes...”
― Oles Honchar; trans. by Leonid Rudnytzky, The Cathedral