Nina Ai-Artyan continued...
“As long as there are slaughterhouses there will always be battlefields.”
― Leo Tolstoy
Kings are the slaves of history.
― Leo Tolstoy
If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.
— Anton Chekhov
For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.
― Marina Tsvetaeva
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
— Anton Chekhov
Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.
In the cradle a child is screaming.
An old man sits over his death, and anyone
young enough talks to his love, breathes
into her lips, looks into her eyes.
― Marina Tsvetaeva
Boredom: the desire for desires.
― Leo Tolstoy
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
― Ivan Turgenev
Tonight—I am alone in the night,
a homeless and sleepless nun!
Tonight I hold all the keys to this
the only capital city
and lack of sleep guides me on my path.
You are so lovely, my dusky Kremlin!
Tonight I put my lips to the breast
of the whole round and warring earth.
— Marina Tsvetaeva