Kutuzov Russian Quotes & Sayings

Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names. — Vladimir Nabokov

To many people I have no doubt that it appears merely silly. I once found it expressed in a rather amusing way in a Russian Book called Dal Zoviet, which means the lure of far horizons. The author is Galinischev Kutuzoff [Golenischev-Kutuzov], and he tells of a man in Northern Mongolia who goes out of his yurt every morning to breathe the free air of the steppes and enjoy the immensity and the solitude. But one day he feels an uncomfortable sense of oppression, almost as if he could not breathe. He looks about to find the reason. And there, across the undulating grasslands, is a line of telegraph poles. And after the place never the same to him again. — Daniele Vare

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
Who would we be if we could not sympathize with those who are not us or ours? Who would we be if we could not forget ourselves, at least some of the time? Who would we be if we could not learn? Forgive? Become something other than we are? — Susan Sontag

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. — Zadie Smith

She triggered admiration and awe-inspiring hope in him. Hope that she'd share everything with him, would be there by his side on every adventure and ordinary day. She was his one in a million. The one to keep his feet firmly planted on the ground and to set him flying higher than he'd ever gone before — Robin Bielman

Everything is possible if you try enough so if something doesn't work out, you're not trying enough. — Nichkhun

Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures. — Rajneesh