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The Master and Margarita

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Posted on December 27, 2011 by admin

‘Dostoevsky is dead,’ said the citizens, but somehow not very confidently.

‘I protest!’ Behemoth exclaimed hotly. ‘Dostoevsky is immortal!’

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us – Leo Tolstoy

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Posted on December 3, 2011 by admin
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced – Leo Tolstoy

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Posted on November 30, 2011 by admin
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Only in Russia is poetry respected. It gets people killed – Osip Mandelstam

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Posted on November 15, 2011 by admin
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He was coming to understand he could not rectify anything in his life, only forget – Mikhail Bulgakov

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Posted on November 13, 2011 by admin
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