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Samovlastye in Dahl's dictionary and samovlastnost as an equivalent of Bataille's souveraineté
Ivan the Terrible Ruled as an Autocrat, Now Wisely and Sagely, Now Recklessly and Cruelly. Autocracy (samovlastye), according to V.I. Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary, is unlimited power, strength, will, or the right of disposal, constrained by nothing, felt and perceived as a right or a quality. The word
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The Archangel Gabriel from the "Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence"
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In essence, ChatGPT and Tom Riddle's diary are phenomena of one and the same demonic nature
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Thanks to a compositor's error, Lensky's fate might have seemed far more enviable
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Jean Baudrillard and His Mad Bookcase
Jean Baudrillard and his mad bookcase. Or rather, not a bookcase at all, but some sort of book-trap. Just try reading without being buried under an avalanche of books.
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Borges at the Sorbonne in 1978
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And in literature this is called a romantic attachment
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Yuri Levitansky on the transience of life and a role that is played only once
Everything passes in this world, snow gives way to rain, Everything passes, everything passes, we came, and we shall go. Everything comes and goes into nowhere out of nothing. Everything passes, but nothing passes without trace. And, taking part in the plot, I watch from the side How my moments
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Dmitri Shostakovich in a 1955 letter to Isaak Glikman on the performance of Bach's music
Fine music will sound well however it is played. Any Bach prelude and fugue can be played at any tempo, with any dynamic shading or none at all, and it will still be beautiful. That is how music ought to be written, so that not a single scoundrel can spoil
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Leonid Andreyev on the cross at the neck and the cross on the back
- But you have no cross round your neck - A cross? We carry ours on our backs Leonid Andreyev
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Vegetarian Coffee
Vegetarian coffee. From the book “Kitchen on a Primus Stove”, 1927