“ I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by an… Nikolai Gogol
“ Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's Nose. Vladimir Nabokov
“ It’s hard to say something about Pushkin to a person who doesn’t know anything about him. Pushkin is a great poet. Napoleon is not as great as Pushkin. Bismarck compared to Pushkin is a nobody. And th… Daniil Kharms
