Top 29 Nina Berberova Quotes

#1. Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.

Nina Berberova

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#2. Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.

Susan Sontag

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#3. It looks now as if everything has been profitable to me. And if the payment has sometimes been excessive, it was afer all the payment, for life, and there cannot be and is no excessive payment for life.

Nina Berberova

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#4. My choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of myself outside of them ... Inside every biological and social situation I am free to make decisions.

Nina Berberova

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#5. People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it's actually the good ones that drive you insane.

Kid Cudi

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#6. People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

Nelson Bunker Hunt

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#7. An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

Aldous Huxley

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#8. Sometimes you have to choose between being strong and being honest, if you want real answers.

Jessiqua Wittman

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#9. I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life for the sake of a line to be written, my balance for the sake of a manuscript, a storm within me for the sake of a poem. I loved life itself too much for this.

Nina Berberova

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#10. I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.

Nina Berberova

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#11. And if we're talking flaws - I get a kick out of flogging people, then fucking them."

Warmth ran up Sam's spine. "That's a flaw?"

Michael grinned. "Only to some.

Anna Zabo

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#12. Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.

Nina Berberova

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#13. I had learnt to seek intensity - more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova

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#14. The past is good (as we all know), twenty, thirty years back everything was good, anyone can tell you that.

Nina Berberova

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#15. To be compromised you need to have a stake in things, you need to have something to lose and something to gain. You have to be risking yourself, not all the time, but enough of the time to be weighing things up, principle over self-preservation, the gains, the losses.

Patrick McGuinness

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#16. Even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing me as a rock. Or is it I who deceive them and pretend that I am a rock when I am a river?

Nina Berberova

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#17. [On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and ... it suddenly appeared, as if with a slight push it detached itself out of the invisible into the visible.

Nina Berberova

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#18. For many years I used the pronoun 'we.' Now, as in my youth, I go to sleep and wake up alone.

Nina Berberova

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#19. We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

Lillian Hellman

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#20. What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.

Robert Redford

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#21. Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.

Nina Berberova

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#22. Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.

Nina Berberova

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#23. The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

Hosea Ballou

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#24. In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated.

Andy Grundberg

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#25. So we stood on the corner by the stationery shop and were deeply insincere with each other.
--The Tattered Cloak

Nina Berberova

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#26. In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup
And talk of the old country
mud and boards,
Poverty,
The snow falling down and necks of lovers.

Louis Simpson

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#27. The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

Nina Berberova

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#28. How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.

Nina Berberova

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#29. They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.

Paul Watson

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