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«Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.»

«Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.»

«Russia has two generals in whom she can confide -Generals Janvier and Fevrier»

«Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.»

«Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.»

«Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.»

«NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama. Unity, totality of effect, is impossible; for besides the few pages last read all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before. To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting. Its distinguishing principle, probability, corresponds to the literal actuality of the photograph and puts it distinctly into the category of reporting; whereas the free wing of the romancer enables him to mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be fitted to attain; and the first three essentials of the literary art are imagination, imagination and imagination. The art of writing novels, such as it was, is long dead everywhere except in Russia, where it is new. Peace to its ashes --some of which have a large sale.»

«The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze»

«There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.»

«Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]»