Anatoly Mariengof
APHORISMS, ANECDOTES, AND OTHER LITERARY TRIFLES
Excessive pessimism is just as repugnant as excessive optimism: two identical...
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Daniil Kharms
“What is going on here,” Anton Antonovich would say, getting annoyed. “So, who am I then, according to you?” “We don’t know,” the acquaintances would say. “Only you’re not Anton Antonovich”.
Igor Sakhnovsky
Did you catch it? What does that smell remind you of, in your opinion? This rose smells of lemons, Spain, and death. She turned around and walked off back to her bench, as though to say, what’s the difference what it smells like?
Vasilij Golovanov
Knives … I wasn’t prepared for that. To be perfectly frank, I’m scared. My romantic notions of this trip have proven illusory: there is nothing less romantic than the Far North today.