#russian quotes

[zaydalix]

- Ivan Turgenev

[loiladadiani]

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

[hahahahhuubg]

ПОЖАЛУЙСТА, НЕ СДАВАЙСЯ

оТдОХНи И ПРОДОЛЖАЙ

ДАЛЬШЕ

[retroinspired]

[metamorphesque]

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

[fandom-trash-goblin]

like matryoshka, one inside another inside another inside another.

Birthright, George Abraham // tumblr user dogsmouth // The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: White Flock //Anne Carson, Nox // A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails, Halyna Kruk // Herman Melville, from a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne //tumblr user eridan-amporna // tumblr user boyflesher(deactivated) // For Your Own Good, Leah Horlick // Elizabeth Robinson, Brothers

[soracities]

Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone)

[mournfulroses]

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, translated by Babette Deutsch, from “Creation,”

[amicus-noctis]

[hypnoticvamp]

Russian Doll (2019 -)

[zaydalix]

Zayd Ali

[loiladadiani]

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”

Ivan Turgeyev

[hamoodmood]

[retroinspired]

[metamorphesque]

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

[flowerytale]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Idiot