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The bombing of Rome on 19 July 1943 and Julien Green's diary entry

It was with a heavy heart that I learned that Rome had been bombed. Yet this was news I had been expecting for several months. Can there really be so many military objectives in Rome? I did not remember it so. Perhaps the railway station is of the utmost importance

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When I first saw this painting by Makovsky, in which a desperate wife tries to stop her husband from stumbling into a tavern, I pictured a scene from the life of the Marmeladov family

Perhaps the figures in Vladimir Makovsky's painting “I Won't Let You!” of 1892 do not quite match the portrait details of Dostoevsky's characters, but perhaps, had Katerina Ivanovna succeeded in restraining Semyon Zakharovich from his ruinous passion, there would be a few more happy

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...yet there are many remote places in Russia, five hundred versts and more without a town, veritable refuges for brigands and all manner of fugitive and passportless people

...yet there are many remote places in Russia, five hundred versts and more without a town, veritable refuges for brigands and all manner of fugitive and passportless people. An example may be seen in the wooded expanse around the river Vetluga, which, stretching seven hundred versts in its course from

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Remember how in Pelevin the oligarchs are ranked beneath the so-called Chaldeans

Remember how in Pelevin the oligarchs are ranked beneath the so-called Chaldeans. The Chaldeans are the retainers of the vampires who suck money dry and who invented banks in order to step up the sucking of this energy. There is, naturally, only one way out: love of the Lord.

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Wretched man that I am!

Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Epistle to the Romans, 7:24 The Apostle laments and complains of the flesh, calling the earthly and voluptuous body a body of death, since it suffers within itself under the law of sin. But

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Strange as it may seem, Pushkin and Eugene Onegin are mentioned in Epstein's correspondence

Strange as it may seem, Pushkin and Eugene Onegin are mentioned in Epstein's correspondence. The context is yet another girl whom he is being urged to take on. It is reported that she is connected to the Russian imperial family, and that her great-great-grandfather, a certain

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"Doctor Zhivago" read by Kontsevich takes 25.5 hours, read by Borzunov 22.5 hours

See what the life-giving tempo and rhythm of speech can do

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The First Rule of Patriarch's Ponds

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Those who have experienced shyness know that the feeling grows in direct proportion to time and in inverse proportion to courage

Leo Tolstoy, Youth

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A monk of the Iversky Monastery at Valdai drowned swimming the lake to his beloved

We Had Our Own Hero and Leander, Sung by Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev in "Journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow" The Valdai lake, upon which this town is built, will remain memorable in the tale of a monk who sacrificed his life for the sake of his mistress. A

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Joan Crawford in My Way of Life on mistakes, bitterness and generosity

Joan Crawford on her way to the launch of her book in Boston, November 1971. I am the sum of everything that has ever happened to me, every mistake I have made and every tear I have shed, though I have tried to keep them few, and I have never

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Caesar replied with amusement, on seeing the decrepit aspect of one weary and broken soldier of his guard, who had come to ask for leave in order to die: "So you suppose that you are still alive?"

Seneca