Literature statements
Poets do not come from somewhere over the sea, but come from their own people. These are the fires that have flown out of him, the foremost messengers of his strength.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
There is no word that would be so ambitious, boldly, that would burst out from under the very heart, so boil and live like a well-spoken Russian word.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
There is hardly a higher pleasure than the pleasure of creating.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
Genius is one percent of the inspiration and ninety-nine percent of the poet.
Thomas Alva Edison
The great poetry of our century is a science with an amazing flourishing of its discoveries, its conquest of matter, inspiring a person in order to increase his activity tenfold.
Emile Zola
Books are a mirror: although they do not speak, they declare guilt and vice to everyone.
Second Catherine the Great
The beauty, grandeur, power and wealth of the Russian language are quite evident from the books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not know any rules for writing, but they hardly thought that they were or could be.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
If we expound the history of literature of a particular era, not knowing the economic and political history of that era, then our presentation will be reduced, at best, to watery aesthetic and philological reasoning.
Franz Mehring
There is a special charm in the books; books cause us delight: they talk to us, give us good advice, they become living friends for us.
Francesco Petrarca
No reading requires such a strict standard as reading fragmentary, scattered thoughts.
Johann Gottfried Herder
Reading good books is a conversation with the best people of the past, and, moreover, such a conversation when they tell us only their best thoughts.
Rene Descartes
Talking to writers from other centuries is almost like traveling.
Rene Descartes
Among books, as well as among people, one can get into good and bad society.
Claude Adrian Helvetius
The struggle for purity, for semantic accuracy, for the sharpness of language is a struggle for a cultural instrument. The sharper this weapon, the more precisely it is directed, the more victorious it is.
Maksim Gorky
Literature is news that never gets old.
Ezra Pound.
Writing simply and clearly is as difficult as being sincere and kind.
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev
Joseph Addison
Literature gives form to life.
A book is a great thing as long as a person knows how to use it.
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok
A good book is just a holiday
Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov) Gorky
Learn and read. Read serious books. Life will do the rest.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The work that is being read has a real one; a work that is re-read has a future.
Alexander (son) Dumas
Good style shouldn't keep a trace of effort. It should feel like a fluke.
Somerset Maugham
Most writers regard truth as their most valuable asset, which is why they use it so sparingly.
Mark Twain
The newest and most original book is the one that makes you love the old truths.
Luc de Clapier Vovenargue
They (the poets) are not clean enough: they muddy the water to make it seem deeper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Literature is a deeply responsible business and does not require flirtation with talents.
Maksim Gorky
Time passes, but the spoken word remains.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Thomas Jefferson
My best friend is the one who gave me a book that I haven’t read yet.
Abraham Lincoln
An artist, painter, poet or musician satisfies the aesthetic sense with his sublime or beautiful; but this is a barbaric satisfaction, it is akin to the sexual instinct, for it also gives itself to you.
Somerset Maugham
When a writer deeply feels his blood connection with the people, it gives him beauty and strength.
Maksim Gorky
Read books, but remember - a book is a book, and move your brain!
Maksim Gorky
A book is the same phenomenon of life as a person, it is also a living fact, speaking, and it is less "a thing" than all other things created and created by man.
Maksim Gorky
Every writer, to a certain extent, portrays himself in his works, often even against his will.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Genuine morality is directly poetic, and poetry, in turn, is indirectly moral.
In any case, a little, but good, is better than a lot, but bad. It's the same in books.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
A book where all words are capitalized is difficult to read; so it is with a life in which all days are Sundays.
I was nourished by laws and it gave me an insight into the dark side of humanity. Then I began to read poetry in order to smooth out this impression and get acquainted with its bright side.
Thomas Jefferson
Books on the topic of the day die along with topicality.
Words sometimes need music, but music doesn't need anything.
Edvard Grieg
Every day you should listen to at least one song, look at a good picture and, if possible, read at least some wise saying.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Only those who are worried about major human and social problems should write.
Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin
Poetry is the same mining of radium.
In a gram production, in a year of work.
You exhaust a single word for the sake of
Thousands of tons of verbal ore.
For a people deprived of public freedom, literature is the only platform from which he makes him hear the cry of his indignation and his conscience.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
One printed nonsense creates in two more the belief that they can write as well. These two, having written and being published, arouse the envy of four.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
A living and enduring sense of filial duty is comprehended by the mind of a son or daughter faster by reading King Lear than by studying hundreds of boring volumes about ethics and divine commandments.
Thomas Jefferson
Painting is poetry that is seen, and poetry is painting that is heard.
Leonardo da Vinci
But even then,
When all over the planet
The enmity of the tribes will pass,
Lies and sadness will disappear, -
I will chant
With the whole being in the poet
Sixth of the earth
With a short name Rus.
Sergey Alexandrovich Yesenin
Statements about the Russian language:
The Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious
A. I. Kuprin
We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language.
K. G. Paustovsky
In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language!., You cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!
I. S. Turgenev
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in Russian; everything excites, breathes, lives.
A. S. Khomyakov
The Russian language is inexhaustiblely rich and everything is enriched with an astounding rapidity.
M. Gorky
The Russian language is a language created for poetry, it is unusually rich and is notable mainly for the subtlety of shades.
P. Merimee
Many Russian words themselves radiate poetry, just as precious stones radiate a mysterious brilliance ...
K. G. Paustovsky
You marvel at the jewels of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, coarse, like the pearl itself, and, really, a different name for the thing itself is even more precious.
N.V. Gogol
Our beautiful language, under the pen of uneducated and unskilful writers, is rapidly falling into decline. Words are distorted. The grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of each and every one.
A. S. Pushkin
We spoil the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. And we use them incorrectly. Why say defects ”when you can say gaps, shortcomings, shortcomings? Isn't it time to declare war on the use of foreign words unnecessarily?
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Take care of the purity of the language as a sacred thing! Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and flexible that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
To use a foreign word when there is a Russian word equivalent to it is to offend both common sense and common taste.
V. Belinsky
In fact, for an intelligent person, speaking ill should be considered as indecent as not being able to read and write.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
To deal with the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, inaccurate, incorrect.
A.N. Tolstoy
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language - this is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Treat this powerful weapon with respect.
I. S. Turgenev
What is language? First of all, it is not only a way to express your thoughts, but also to create your thoughts. Language has the opposite effect. A person who turns his thoughts, his ideas, his feelings into language ... he is also, as it were, permeated with this way of expression.
A. N. Tolstoy
In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! If it weren't for you, how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!
I.S. Turgenev
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
A.I. Kuprin
There is no word that would be so ambitious, boldly, that would burst out from under the very heart, so boil and live like a well-spoken Russian word.
N. Gogol
Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation with nothing to do, but an urgent need.
A. Kuprin
Russian language! For thousands of years, the people have created this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustible, rich, intelligent poetic ... instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future ... The people have woven the invisible web of the Russian language with a marvelous ligature: as bright as a rainbow following the spring rain , sharp as an arrow, soulful like a song over a cradle, melodious ... The dense world, over which he had thrown a magic net of words, submitted to him like a bridled horse.
A.N. Tolstoy
To handle the language somehow means to think somehow: imprecise, approximately, incorrect.
A.N. Tolstoy
There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which no precise expression could be found in our language.
... You can work wonders with the Russian language!
K.G. Paustovsky
The Russian language is inexhaustiblely rich, and everything is enriched with astonishing rapidity.
Maksim Gorky
You marvel at the jewels of our language: every sound is a gift; everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and really, another name is more precious than the thing itself.
N.V. Gogol
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Treat this powerful weapon with respect; in the hands of the skilled, it is capable of performing miracles.
I.S. Turgenev
It's not scary to lie under the bullets dead,
It is not bitter to be left homeless, -
And we will save you, Russian speech,
Great Russian word.
We will carry you free and clean
And we will give grandchildren, and we will save from captivity,
Forever.
Language is a prearranged path or pattern of thought.
Edward Sapir
Human language is flexible; there is no end to speeches in him.
Homer
Don't let your tongue get ahead of your thought.
Chilo
For the knowledge of the mores of any people, try first to learn its language.
Pythagoras of Samos
Language is the weapon of the writer, as is the weapon of the soldier. The better the weapon, the stronger the warrior ...
Maksim Gorky
It is tricky to write only about what they do not understand.
Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky
The Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture ... That is why the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation with nothing to do, but an urgent need.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which no precise expression could be found in our language.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
Say what you like, but the native language will always remain native. When you want to speak to your heart, not a single French word will enter your head, but if you want to shine, then it's another matter.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Beware of exquisite language. The language should be simple and elegant.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
At all times, the wealth of language and oratory went hand in hand.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
But what a disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that position ... on the one hand ... on the other hand - and all this is unnecessary. “Nevertheless,” and “to the extent,” the officials wrote. I read and spit.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The greatest wealth of a people is its language.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov
We speak the great language of consciousness and reason, before which the language of religion is powerless.
Henri Barbusse
The boundaries of my language mean the boundaries of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
We are fighting with the tongue.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lack of confidence in grammar is the first requirement for philosophizing.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Our language can be viewed as an ancient city: a labyrinth of small streets and squares, old and new houses, houses with extensions from different eras; all surrounded by many new neighborhoods with regular straight streets and standard houses.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
No sentence can say something about itself. A person has the ability to build languages that allow you to express any meaning, without knowing how and what each word means.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
What kind of object something is is given by grammar.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The printed line looks and runs differently than a series of arbitrary hooks and curls.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Everyday language is part of the human device, and it is no less complex than this device.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
To understand a sentence is to understand the language. To understand a language means to master a certain technique.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
You learned the concept of "pain" along with the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The proposal is a model of reality, as we think of it to ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A sentence can convey new meaning with old expressions.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The sentence shows what it says; tautology and contradiction show that they say nothing.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The proposal itself is neither likely nor improbable.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A sentence is true when what it represents exists.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The confusion that preoccupies us arises when the tongue is idling, not when it is working.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
He who has a language "has" the world.
Hans Georg Gadamer
Writing is the abstract ideality of language.
Hans Georg Gadamer
Where translation is required, one has to put up with a discrepancy between the exact meaning of what is said in one language and what is reproduced in another language.
Hans Georg Gadamer
There is nothing that is not audible thanks to language.
Hans Georg Gadamer
That which can be understood is language.
Hans Georg Gadamer
The requirement of fidelity to the original, which we present to the translation, does not remove the fundamental difference between the languages. Any translation that takes its task seriously is clearer and more primitive than the original.
Hans Georg Gadamer
Language is an environment in which “I” and the world unite.
Hans Georg Gadamer
Not an investigating science, but a creative language gave birth to both the word and the concept.
Johan Huizinga
We share intelligence and language, but in reality there is no such division.
Gustav Gustavovich Shpet
The people use the language, not knowing how it was formed, so it seems that language is not so much a manifestation of conscious creativity, as an involuntary outflow of the spirit itself.
Gustav Gustavovich Shpet
Language is, as it were, an external manifestation of the spirit of peoples - their language is their spirit, and their spirit is their language.
Gustav Gustavovich Shpet
The existence of people is tightly linked by language.
Georges Bataille
The function of the language is not to inform, but to invoke views.
Jacques Lacan
Analogy is not a metaphor.
Jacques Lacan
I have always taken up a new language in order to master a new working tool.
Mircea Eliade
The emergence of speaking is the mystery of language.
Paul Ricoeur
For us speakers, language is not an object, but a mediator; language is that thanks to which, with the help of which we express ourselves and things.
Paul Ricoeur
The ultimate openness of language is its victory.
Paul Ricoeur
Only at the level of a phrase does the language say something; outside of a phrase, he does not say anything.
Paul Ricoeur
Everything that language only touches - philosophy, humanities, literature - in a certain sense is called into question anew.
Roland Barthes
Jargon is imagination embodied.
Roland Barthes
We choose a language not because it seems necessary to us - we choose a language for ourselves and thereby make it necessary.
Roland Barthes
Language has become for us both a problem and a model, and perhaps the hour is near when these two "roles" of it will begin to communicate with each other.
Roland Barthes
Language is the very essence of literature, the world where it lives.
Roland Barthes
The omnipotence of language is to speak of words.
Gilles Deleuze
The language is either given in its entirety, or it is not at all.
Gilles Deleuze
It is language that must simultaneously set limits and transcend them.
Gilles Deleuze
To observe is to be content with seeing. Natural history is a contemporary of language.
Paul Michel Foucault
Sciences are well-organized languages in the same way that languages are not yet developed sciences.
Paul Michel Foucault
Language is not an external manifestation of thought, but thought itself.
Paul Michel Foucault
There is something, something really is outside the language, and it all depends on the interpretation.
Jacques Derrida
An idiom is not a stone. The idiom is not the border with the policeman at the gate.
Jacques Derrida
To speak one's own language means to demand translation, to cry for translation.
Jacques Derrida
This is the fate of the language - to move away from the body.
Jacques Derrida
Language cannot do without spatial metaphors.
Jacques Derrida
An unfolded sentence says more than an undecomposed one. When a sentence is as complex as its meaning, it is completely decomposed.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language is a part of our organism, and no less complex than this organism itself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language disguises thoughts.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language is a labyrinth of paths.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Every language has its own silence.
Elias Canetti
Language, taken as a system, goes numb.
Elias Canetti
Language itself is symbolism.
Alfred North Whitehead
All paths of thought, in a more or less perceptible way, mysteriously lead through language.
Martin Heidegger
For East Asian and European peoples, the essence of the language remains completely different.
Martin Heidegger
Learning a foreign language is expanding the scope of everything that we can learn at all.
Hans Georg Gadamer
Understanding someone else's language means not needing translation into your own.
Hans Georg Gadamer
Since ancient times, people have had wise and wonderful sayings; we should learn from them.
Herodotus
An unrestrained tongue is the worst of evils.
Euripides
From a small spark to a fire
The language brings people ...
Euripides
A short mind has a long tongue.
Aristophanes
What is multiplied by tongues is the cause of troubles.
Menander
Above all, learn to restrain your tongue.
Menander
A language that is wise with knowledge will not stumble.
Menander
There should be no errors in the language of nannies.
Quintilian
Knowing the laws is not about remembering their words, but about comprehending their meaning.
Cicero Mark Tullius
Wanting the truth, do not hold back your tongue.
Publius Sire
An evil tongue is a sign of an evil heart.
Publius Sire
A person always has one thing on his tongue and another on his mind.
Publius Sire
Be quiet, my tongue, there is nothing more to talk about.
Ovid
An evil tongue betrays the reckless.
Plutarch
Whose country is the language.
Unknown author
Language is the enemy of men and a friend of the devil and women.
Unknown author
A meek tongue is a tree of life, but an unbridled tongue is a broken spirit.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will partake of its fruits.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon
Be firm in your conviction, and let one word be. Be quick to listen, and give your answer deliberately. If you have knowledge, then answer your neighbor, and if not, then let your hand be on your lips. In speeches - glory and dishonor, and the language of a person is a fall to him. Do not be known as an earpiece, and do not deceive with your tongue: for on a thief is shame, and in a bilingual one is an evil reproach. Do not be unreasonable in anything large or small.
Old Testament. Sirach
A restraining tongue will live peacefully, and one who hates talkativeness will diminish evil.
Old Testament. Sirach
Free curiosity is much more important for language learning than formidable necessity.
Aurelius Augustine
Language is the best medium for establishing friendship and harmony.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Language is the most dangerous weapon: a wound from a sword heals more easily than from a word.
Pedro Carderon de la Barca
Experienced people in language recognize the pulse of the spirit, it was not for nothing that the sage said: "Speak, if you want me to recognize you ..."
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
The tongue protects the head.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
Experience too often teaches us that people have so little power over anything as over their language.
Benedict Spinoza
Just as a person can be recognized by the society in which he moves, so one can judge him by the language in which he is expressed.
Jonathan Swift
Sword and fire are less destructive than chatty tongue.
Richard Steele
Knowing many languages means having many keys to one lock.
Voltaire
Language is also important because it helps us hide our thoughts.
Voltaire
Language is the clothing of thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
The accent is the soul of the language, it gives it not only feeling, but also authenticity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
When the language is not embarrassed, everyone is embarrassed.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The beauty, grandeur, power and wealth of the Russian language are quite evident from the books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not know any rules for writing, but they hardly thought that they were or could be.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Charles the Fifth, the Roman emperor, used to say that it is decent to speak in Ishpan with God, in French with friends, in German with an enemy, and in Italian with the female sex. But if he had been skilled in the Russian language, then, of course, he would have added to that that it is decent for them to speak with all of them, for he would find in him the splendor of Ishpansky, the liveliness of the French, the strength of the German, the tenderness of the Italian, moreover, wealth and strong in images. the brevity of the Greek and Latin languages.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
The language that the Russian state commands in the great part of the world, by its power, has natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to a single European language. And for this there is no hesitation, so that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection, which we are surprised at in others.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
The perception of someone else's words, and especially unnecessarily, is not enrichment, but the deterioration of the language.
Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov
If a person's language is lethargic, heavy, confused, powerless, indefinite, uneducated, then this is probably the mind of this person, for he thinks only through the medium of language.
Johann Gottfried Herder
In the midst of the worst of all, the tongue is prickly.
Johann Friedrich Schiller
How beautiful the Russian language is! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness.
Friedrich Engels
It is impossible to create a language, because the people create it; philologists only discover its laws and bring it into the system, while writers only create on it in accordance with these laws.
To use a foreign word when there is a Russian word equivalent to it is to offend both common sense and common taste.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
Language is a tool; it is almost more difficult than the violin itself. You might also notice that mediocrity on one or the other instrument is intolerable.
Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky
You marvel at the jewels of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, coarse, like the pearl itself, and, really, a different name for the thing itself is even more precious.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
Language is the age-old labor of a whole generation.
Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl
Language will not keep pace with education, will not respond
modern needs, if they do not allow it to work out from its juice and root,
ferment on your yeast.
Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl
The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of the foreign aesthetics themselves, is not inferior either in courage to Latin or in fluency to Greek, surpassing all European ones: Italian, French and Spanish, even more so German.
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin
Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison.
Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov
New words of foreign origin are introduced into the Russian press incessantly and often completely unnecessarily, and - what is most offensive - these harmful exercises are practiced in those very bodies where the most ardent advocate for the Russian nationality and its characteristics.
Nikolay Semenovich Leskov
As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language!., You cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
The language of the people is the best, never fading and eternally blossoming color of all its spiritual life.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky
Language is not always able to express what the eye sees.
James Fenimore Cooper
The Russian language is a language created for poetry, it is unusually rich and is notable mainly for the subtlety of shades.
Prosper Merimee
The main advantage of language is clarity.
Stendhal
The language was given to a person in order to hide his thoughts.
Charles Maurice Talleyrand (Talleyrand-Périgord)
It is good, and even you need to know the neighbor's speech, but first of all you need to know your own.
Francis Kazimirovich Bogushevich
The language that is dearest to my heart is the one in which, my dear, you once said to me, bringing a flower: "I love you!"
George Meredith
We only feel the beauty of native speech when we hear it under someone else's heaven!
George Bernard Shaw
There is no truth in a person who is unable to control his tongue.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The struggle for purity, for semantic accuracy, for the sharpness of language is a struggle for a cultural instrument. The sharper this weapon, the more precisely it is directed, the more victorious it is.
Maksim Gorky
If you don't know how to hold an ax in your hand, you can't eat a tree, and if you don't know the language well, it's beautiful and understandable to everyone, you can't write it.
Maksim Gorky
With their work, these writers changed the history of 20th century literature, making their weighty, invaluable contribution to it. They are quoted, referred to, talked about and argued about. It is undeniable, but true - these names are always heard. There is no such person who at least once has not heard about these writers or has not held their books in his hands. So let's give them the floor today, remembering the brightest and most controversial quotes from the 20 best writers of the past century.
Gabriel García Márquez
His works, shrouded in mysteries and myths, are loved and read all over the world. As the creator of the "magic realism" movement, he wanted to tell people so much and he did! Many of his quotes are about love and this is not surprising! After all, the heroes of his works knew how to live and love for real.
Uduba.com
"Perhaps in this world you are only human, but for someone you are the whole world."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The government feared him like fire, relatives loved him with all their hearts, and the intellectuals respected and adored him. Solzhenitsyn never for a second stopped loving his homeland and thinking about it, even when he was far beyond its borders. He lived a long life full of trials and hardships, leaving behind a huge literary legacy.
libkids51.ru "Education does not add to the mind."
"Life is given for happiness."
"There is a lot of clever things in the world, few good things."
Carlos Castaneda
The books of the writer and thinker Carlos Castaneda became a real discovery for some, and for others a new point of view about the world around them. His worldview is unusual for a common man. And the author himself applied the term "magic" to a series of books devoted to shamanism, although he specified that it was not enough to fully reveal the essence of the teachings of our ancestors.
harmonysoul.net “If you don’t like what you get, change what you give ”.
Paulo Coelho
Like no other writer in the world, Paulo Coelho helps readers to look at things from a different angle, find the great even in small things and look at life with unfailing optimism. He is loved and read all over the world, and the circulation of his 18 books has long stepped over the mark of 350 million copies.
obozrevatel.com "If you dare to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello."
Jorge Luis Borges
The inimitable poet, writer and thinker, Borges has won numerous awards. Despite his blindness in the second half of his life, he still clearly saw and depicted human souls in his works.
postcultura.ru "Someone is proud of every book written, I - of every read."
The Strugatsky brothers
Boris and Arkady Strugatsky are perhaps the most famous brothers-writers. The idols of millions of people, they write about the future, about man and the world. Their works have long become classics of the genre and a part of the life of admirers of the Strugatsky talent. How to make the right choice, not get lost and find yourself - these are the questions that their creativity answers.
manwb.ru “A person needs money in order to never think about it.”
Ray Bradbury
It is believed that it is thanks to this dreamer writer that readers have shown an incredible interest in the fantasy and science fiction genres. What did Bradbury think and what did he want to say? Read in quotes:
snipview.com “ When a person is 17, he knows everything. If he is 27 and he still knows everything, then he is still 17 ”.
Umberto Eco
This writer of our time is considered one of the most erudite people. He worked in television and in the press, and has a lot to say in lectures that he still reads all over the world. In 2010, Eco said that he was unlikely to write another novel, so hurry up to enjoy the works already written and replenish your stock with another author's quote:
geometria.ru "Nothing cheers up a coward like another person's cowardice."
Erich Maria Remarque
This surprisingly delicate and vulnerable man doubted his talent all his life. He went through the war, where he was seriously wounded, and experienced deep, but, unfortunately, unrequited feelings. Remarque's books are full of feelings and images that lived in his heart. As a Lost Generation writer, he has always raised the theme of war and love. About them and his famous quotes:
light-of-angels.ucoz.ru “The first person you think about in the morning and the last person you think about at night is either the reason for your happiness or the reason for your pain. ”
Ernest Hemingway
The life of this writer, full of surprises and adventures, aroused no less interest in people than his many stories and novels. Short on the one hand, but so comprehensive on the other, the style in which Hemingway wrote was forever imprinted on the history of 20th century literature. From his quotes, people often learn something from their lives:
uduba.com “All people in the world are divided into two categories. With the first it is easy, as easy without them. It is very difficult with the latter, but it is impossible to live without them at all ”.
George Orwell
The writer of an ironic, sharp mind is known, first of all, for his imperishable works "Animal Farm" and "1984". His creations are often full of the horrors of a totalitarian regime. And although many of Orwell's quotes, fortunately, did not come true, reading them, each time you flinch at how prophetic they sound:
bostonglobe.com “Freedom is the ability to say that twice two is four. ”
Vladimir Nabokov
A master of words, a connoisseur of human souls and an author of works about love, he was a real citizen of the world and an amazingly versatile person. Nabokov could study female and male psychology, combining this occupation with a passion for butterflies. By the way, the new species discovered by him are now named after him.
asphodel-lee.blogspot.com “Memory resurrects everything except smells. But on the other hand, nothing resurrects the past so completely as the smell that was once associated with it. "
Jerome David Salinger
It seems that living contrary to Salinger's system was incredibly important. He left literature, having written the only novel, but known throughout the world, "The Catcher in the Rye." He abandoned the city for a remote village. A rebel by nature, the author of the cult work served as an example for many generations of the same rebels. And all his life Salinger lived as he saw fit, and not as society expected him to.
styleinsider.com.ua “I always say 'very nice to meet you' when I am not at all pleased. But if you want to live with people, you have to say all kinds of things. "
Eugene Ionesco
Despite the fact that the writer is considered one of the founders of the “theater of the absurd”, Ionesco himself has repeatedly said that his plays are as realistic as the whole real world and the surrounding reality are absurd. And his quotes are the best confirmation of this:
storm-prorammes.weebly.com "Better pie in the sky than a lump in your throat."
John R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings novel brought John Tolkien worldwide fame, and his book became one of the most widely read in the 20th century. The writer's work had a huge impact on the fantasy genre in particular, and on world culture in general. Today John Tolkien is on the list of “50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945” and is widely regarded as one of the most successful literary men of the past century.
biographera.net “We do not choose times. We can only decide how to live in the times that have chosen us. ”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Despite the fact that this American writer was the brightest representative of the “lost generation”, he himself attributed his works to the “era of jazz,” invented by him. Today there is hardly a person who has not yet read or heard about his novel The Great Gatsby.
Quotes That Teach Life: The Best of Great Writers updated: April 20, 2019 by the author: mila ognevich
