Quotes About Vladimir

Then Van and Ada met in the passage, and would have kissed at some earlier stage of the Novel's Evolution in the History of Literature.

For me a work of fiction exists only in so far as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art is the norm.

Had I not somehow tampered with her fate by involving her image in my voluptas

I mesmerized him with it, I saturated him with my vision, I pressed upon him, with a drunkard's wild generosity, all that I was helpless myself to put into verse.

Where, where... M'sieur Pierre mimicked him. You know where. Off to do chop-chop.

He excused himself saying he felt out of sorts, and continued to clean the bowl of his pipe as fiercely as if it were my heart he was hollowing out.

I, on my part, was as naive as only a pervert can be

as if it were a point of honor—which, indeed, a point of art often is.

He was an amateur of sex lore

puzzling that such imitations always pander so exclusively to the eye instead of also copying the damp fat feel of live petal and leaf.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the book or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed the book

L'estil i l'estructura són l'essència d'un bon llibre; les grans idees són estupideses. El estilo y la estructura son a esencia de un buen libro; las grandes ideas son estupideces

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

I was as helpless as Adam at the preview of early oriental history, miraged in his apple orchard.

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.

this is the best year ever because i am reading the chronicles of vladimir tod

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.

We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

What we prize most is peace and an opportunity to devote all our efforts to restoring our economy.

Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.