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Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The past is good (as we all know), twenty, thirty years back everything was good, anyone can tell you that.
Nina Berberova
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'The Don! The Don! The gentle Don! Our father; giver of our food! Hurrah!'
Mikhail Sholokhov
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There shall be wings!...if the accomplishment be not for me, tis for some other. It shall be done. The spirit cannot lie; and Man, who shall know all and who shall have wings, shall indeed be as a god.
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
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