Gaito Gazdanov Quotes

#1. I knew by experience and by observing many of my friends the baneful, destructive effect which participation in a war has on almost every man.
(from 'The Specter of Alexander Wolf')

Gaito Gazdanov

#2. Your gift for thinking interferes with you: without it, of course, you'd be happy.

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#3. Among all my recollections, among all the numberless sensations of my life, the memory of the lone murder I had committed weighed heaviest on my mind.
(from 'The Specter of Alexander Wolf')

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#4. And only now am I beginning to think that perhaps not all is lost.

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#5. When I wake up every morning, I think to myself, Today my life will begin in earnest.

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#6. The justice of any single commandment cannot be proven logically in an irrefutable manner, and there is no moral law which is binding under all conditions without exception. Ethics, generally, exist only as far as we are willing to accept them.
(from 'The Specter of Alexander Wolf')

Gaito Gazdanov