Viv Groskop

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b5186438471has quoted2 years ago
woman has a great responsibility: to give birth. But she doesn’t give birth to ideas – that is the responsibility of men.’
b5186438471has quoted2 years ago
The Russian classics are, admittedly, not the most obvious place to look for tips for a happier life. Russian literature is full of gloomy people wondering how on earth they have ended up in the appalling predicament in which they find themselves, looking around desperately for someone else to blame and then realizing that, in fact, they were right in the first place: life really is extremely inconvenient and annoying, and we are all just waiting to die.
b5186438471has quoted2 years ago
it is in literature – whether novels, plays or poetry – that we really see who we are – and, perhaps even more importantly, who we don’t want to be.
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