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Quotes & Aphorisms about Russia
There is a definite correlation between the immensity and infinity of the Russian land with the Russian soul. The Russian landscape, with its plains stretching away to infinity and its lack of well-defined contours, may be likened to the soul. In the soul of the Russian people is the same immensity and striving to infinity, as in the Russian plain.
Berdyaev
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About Russia it is said that it does not belong to Europe or to Asia which is a special world. So be it. But we have to prove that the human race, in addition to its two sides defined by the words - East and West, has another third side to it.
Peter Chaadaev
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A Russian cannot be happy in solitude; he needs the participation of others without which he will not be happy.
Vladimir Dahl
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There are no roads in Russia, only directions
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Do not fight with the Russian. At your every military stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.
Otto von Bismarck
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We have the idea to thought five thousand miles
Peter Vyazemsky
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Only one Russian language will - means and strength to overcome, and a symbol of the lack of barriers
Gregory Landau
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Denial of Russia in the name of humanity is robbing humanity.
Berdyaev
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Russia: Miles of cornfields, and ballet in the evening
Alan Hackney
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Russians, because of the size of their country, are cosmopolitan in nature or at least one-sixth of the population is cosmopolitan, as Russia occupies almost one-sixth of the populated world.
Heinrich Heine
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Russia has two woes: fools and roads.
NV Gogol
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The distinctive property of the Russian mind is the lack of the concept of boundaries. You might think that all the immensity of space of our homeland is imprinted in our brain.
Boris Chicherin
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Russians are slow to harness, but fast to drive
Otto von Bismarck
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You cannot understand Russia with your mind
You cannot measure it with a common yardstick.
It has its own special stature – you can only believe in Russia
Fyodor Tyutchev
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We (the Russians) have got European self-esteem, though our development is Asian
Anton Chekhov