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801599d
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They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.
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drinking
liquor
vodka
russian
drunk
russia
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Anthony Bourdain |
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953dace
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But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.
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fiction
russian-literature
russian
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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f52cc96
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That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.
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story
history
inspirational
ww2
russian
world-war-ii
pessimism
jews
russia
jewish
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David Benioff |
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1549e17
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Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.
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sacrifice
inspirational
russian
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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73a562b
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"Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whether he lives or doesn't live, he himself will be God. And that other God will no longer be.'
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suicide
death
god
russian-lit
fyodor-dostoyevsky
russian-literature
dostoyevsky
russian
demons
russia
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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acdcee7
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Your slave and enemy, D.Karamazov
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russian
classic
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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4902ae7
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Anzhol'ras, stoiavshii s ruzh'em v ruke na grebne zagrazhdeniia, podnial svoe prekrasnoe strogoe litso. Anzhol'ras, kak izvestno, byl iz porody spartantsev i puritan. On umer by pri Fermopilakh vmeste s Leonidom i szheg by Drokhedu vmeste s Kromvelem. - Granter! - kriknul on. - Poidi kuda-nibud', prospis'. Zdes' mesto op'ianeniiu, a ne p'ianstvu. Ne pozor' barrikadu. Eti gnevnye slova proizveli na Grantera neobychainoe vpechatlenie. Emu slovno vyplesnu-li stakan kholodnoi vody v litso. On, kazalos', srazu protrezvilsia, sel, oblokotilsia na stol vozle okna, s nevyrazimoi krotost'iu vzglianul na Anzhol'rasa i skazal: - Pozvol' mne pospat' zdes'. - Stupai dlia etogo v drugoe mesto! - kriknul Anzhol'ras. No Granter, ne svodia s nego nezhnogo i mutnogo vzgliada, progovoril: - Pozvol' mne tut pospat', poka ia ne umru. Anzhol'ras prezritel'no vzglianul na nego. - Granter! Ty nesposoben ni verit', ni dumat', ni khotet', ni zhit', ni umirat'. - Vot ty uvidish', - ser'ezno skazal Granter. On probormotal eshche neskol'ko nevniatnykh slov, potom ego golova tiazhelo upala na stol, i mgnovenie spustia on uzhe spal, chto dovol'no obychno dlia vtoroi stadii op'ianeniia, k kotoromu ego rezko i bezzhalostno podtolknul Anzhol'ras.
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grantaire
russian
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Victor Hugo |
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bdb4ce6
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When I was growing up, my mom used to tell my sister and me about a leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But she never mentioned a Russian Neanderthal with a bag of diamonds at the end of a bloody trail in a train station
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russian
killer
mafia
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James Patterson |
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7594a6b
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"In de loop van de vijf, zes jaar dat ik in Rusland verbleef, ben ik een paar keer door diverse organisaties en individuen gedood dan wel doodverklaard.
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morbid
russian
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Jaroslav Hašek |
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8346aec
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"Uvi, tozi ,,diven ruski ezik", koito mi se struvashe, che vse me ochakva niak'de, ts'fti kato viarna prolet zad zalostena zdravo vrata, za koiato ot tolkova godini s'm pazil kliucha, se okaza nes'shchestvuvashch i zad tazi vrata niama nishcho osven ov'gleni p'nove i esenna beznadezhdna dalnina, a kliuch't v r'kata mi prilicha po-skoro na shperts. (...) Dvizheniiata na tialoto, grimasite, peizazhite, mornite, d'rveta, aromatite, d'zhdovete, stapiashchite se i prelivashchite se otten'tsi na prirodata, vsichko nezhno-choveshko (kolkoto i da e chudno!), a s'shcho i vsichko m'zhkarsko, grubo, sochno-tsinichno izliza na ruski ne po-zle, ako ne i po-dobre, otkolkoto na angliiski; no tolkova pris'shchite na angliiskiia izt'ncheni nedoml'vki, poeziiata na mis'lta, mignovenata iskra mezhdu s'vsem otvlechenite poniatiia, roivaneto na ednosrichni epiteti, vsichko tova, a s'shcho i vsichko, shcho se otnasia do tekhnikata, modite, sporta, estestvenite nauki i protivoestestvenite strasti -- na ruski izglezhda d'rveno, mnogoslovno i chesto otvratitelno v smis'l na stil i rit'm. Tozi raznoboi otraziava osnovnata razlika v istorichesko otnoshenie mezhdu zeleniia ruski literaturen ezik i zreliia kato razpuknala se smokinia angliiski: mezhdu genialniia, no oshche nedostat'chno obrazovan, a poniakoga dosta lishen ot vkus mladezh i mastitiia genii, koito s'chetava zapasite ot p'stro znanie s p'lnata svoboda na dukha. Svobodata na dukha! Tsialoto dikhanie na chovechestvoto se vmestva v tova s'chetanie ot dumi." --
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translating
russian
language
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Vladimir Nabokov |
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4f2b79d
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The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull.
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goals-and-plans
potemkin
potemkin-catherine-the-great
russian
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Eleanor Herman |
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080b5e9
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Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world's, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship.
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worship
saint
russian
soul
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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602efcd
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At the time of the Russian emancipation, about 20 percent of the Russian population lived in serfdom. In the United States at this time, about 10 percent of the population lived in slavery.
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slavery
russian
united-states
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Nick Tosches |