Lyudmila Ulitskaya Quotes

#1. ... we live in a society of larvae--immature human beings, adolescents disguised as adults.

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#2. Looking at Rita, I have long found social injustice preferable to the struggle against it.

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#3. There is no escaping life. It takes what is it's due.

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#4. I recognize that what you believe doesn't matter in the slightest. All that matters is how you personally behave.

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#5. He had understood long ago that the past was no better than the present. That was as plain as day. One had to try to escape, to wrestle free from every era, so as not to be devoured by it.

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#6. It is hot, the light is strong and I have an extraordinary sense of clarity, although quite what is clear I cannot express.

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#7. Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the world and in man. It is the only true food for your soul

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#8. Maybe it was true that only beauty would save the world, or truth, or some other high-flown garbage; but fear was still more powerful than anything else. Fear destroyed everything: everything born of beauty, the tender shoots of all that was fine, wise, eternal...

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#9. Judgment is not always required. You don't need to have an opinion on every issue.

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