Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me Quotes

“It's sad to wander about the graveyard of my tired memory, where all hurts have been forgiven, where every sin has been more that atoned for, every riddle unriddled and twilight quietly cloaks the crosses, now no longer upright, of graves I once wept over.”
― Teffi, Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi

“Sometimes I was able to laugh, since I wanted so badly to live on God's earth. But more often I cried, since life was proving almost beyond me.”
― Teffi, Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi

“Apart from sweets, Valya was interested in very little. Though once, while drawing moustaches on some elderly aunts in a photograph album, she asked in passing, “So where is Jesus Christ now?”
― Teffi, Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi

“It's sad to wander about the graveyard of my tired memory, where all hurts have been forgiven, where every sin has been more than atoned for, every riddle unriddled and twilight quietly cloaks the crosses, now no longer upright, of graves I once wept over.”
― Teffi, Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi