Quotes from Venedikt Erofeev

Oh, that most helpless and shameful of times in the life of my people, the time from dawn until the liquor stores open up!

And toward the evening of the same day, all the world's teletypes received a communication: Death was a result of natural causes. It wasn't said whose death, but the world surmised.

Toti sunteti tristi!... Dar peste saizeci de zile va fi primavara... Atmosfera, temperatura, dispozitia - toate vor urca in sus... Semintele vor rasari... Vor gadila vaginul... Indragostit-va... Nu trebuie sa disperati...

One must get used to speaking of one's virtues bravely, to people's faces. Who is to know, if not we ourselves, to what degree we are good?