A Slav Soul and Other Stories Quotes

“I am old, and solitary as well, and you can't think how long the nights are to us old folk.”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, A Slav Soul and Other Stories

“And, in conclusion, I say that men are hypocrites; they envy one another, they lie, they are inhospitable, cruel.... And yet they rule over us, and will continue to do so ... because it's arranged like that.”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, A Slav Soul and Other Stories

“Are human beings so much more worthy and better than we are, that they are allowed to take advantage of so many cruel privileges with impunity?”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, A Slav Soul and Other Stories

“Ladies and gentlemen, is there no way Of getting all honourable dogs free, once and for all, from their shameful slavery to mankind”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, A Slav Soul and Other Stories

“You must understand that your daughter's illness is indifference to life, and nothing more....”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, A Slav Soul and Other Stories

“the world is really so small that everyone must of necessity meet everyone else”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, A Slav Soul and Other Stories

“It was this feeling which had impelled him to visit once more those places familiar to his youth, to live over again in memory those dear, painfully sweet recollections of his childhood, overshadowed with a poetical sadness, to wound his soul once more with the sweet grief of recalling that which was for ever past—the irrevocable purity and clearness of his first impressions of life.”
― Aleksandr Kuprin, A Slav Soul and Other Stories