Why we love Dina Rubina: 9 favorite passages and quotes from her works

Why we love Dina Rubina: 9 favorite passages and quotes from her works

For the cultural life of Almaty, the visit of Dina Rubina, a famous writer, author of charming, soulful prose (more than 40 works and dozens of film adaptations) is an event. This is a real outlet for those who missed a good word, real literature and a world where talented scoundrel artists live (“The White Dove of Cordoba”), powerful, colorful women sculptors (“On Verkhnyaya Maslovka”), and men who can fall in love into a doll (“Parsley Syndrome”). The evening's program (more details can be found on the Lecture Hall website) includes a conversation with fans, answers to their questions and, of course, Ms. Rubina reading short stories or vivid excerpts from novels. What exactly will Dina Ilyinichna read at her evening - under the veil of secrecy. For now, we suggest getting acquainted with our favorite excerpts from her works.

Dina Rubina reads an excerpt from the audiobook “Gentlemen and Dogs”

Excerpts from the works of Dina Rubina:

“By intelligence I mean, mainly, the rarest innate ability - not to burden others with oneself.” ("The Last Boar of the Woods of Pontevedra")

“Why don’t you write a novel? - Don't know. “There is no talent,” Nina answered quietly, still holding her hand on the old woman’s hand. - Come on, you don’t have talent, but you don’t have a plot. You don’t have a plot for your own life, you live listlessly, little by little, sip by sip. All of you are frightened by the past, although you did not fall under its caterpillars... Here you are, born in the fifties, you did not know the tragedies of the world, but how crushed you are, how flawed! And your life is cramped, like a small apartment... And I... I carry in my chest three wars, pogroms, the thirtieth anniversary of the mustachioed Inquisition - this is a whole cemetery of loved ones... And I’m not scared of the past... No, I’m not scared... I love all the suffering of my life... Yes... Your literature... I read it, Seva pushed it to me with delight... There is no freedom, my dear, there are no spaces... You will describe some ashtray in such a way that Bunin will roll over in his grave with envy, but there is no passion. And art is passion. This is Love. This is the eternal sky... And you don’t see the sky behind the ashtray...” (“On Verkhnyaya Maslovka”)

“Her appearance has entered a wonderful time of absolute, exhaustive completeness of the image, when her face expresses peace and freedom from the turmoil of youth, from the desire to be on time and to overtake... That golden ratio of age, a brief moment of prosperity, when you are in harmony with time, your own body and in his own person..." ("On the Sunny Side of the Street")

“...People do not need a living, bodily woman who gave birth to God. They need a dream about her. And they need God - killed, crucified, resurrected... whatever, but only - there, in the unattainable distance, please, not here, not nearby.” ("Parsley Syndrome")

Trailer for the film “Parsley Syndrome”, based on the work of the same name by Dina Rubina

“A mysterious thing is life. Who will tell her: when and why did her own only child, chubby legs writhing in her crib, turn into someone else’s prim old woman? And if this vile mockery of a human being is called life, then why the longing and passionate desire to live more and more?” (“On Verkhnyaya Maslovka”)

“He teases me at every break that I have a crush on Oksanka Tishchenko. -Are you infatuated? “Yes,” the boy admitted. - Then hit me in the face! - advised the mother. “I can’t - in the face,” he said. - Why? “The muzzle looks with its eyes...” (“Astral flight of the soul in a physics lesson”)

“It takes place at the beginning of the twentieth century, on the Brooklyn Bridge. A blind beggar sits and holds in his hands a cardboard on which is written: “Give to the blind!” A young writer approaches him and asks: “Well, how much do they serve you?” “Two, three dollars a day,” the blind man replies sadly. - Give me your cardboard! - says the writer, takes out a pencil, writes something on the back of the tearful appeal and gives it to the beggar: - Now you will hold it like this! A month passes, then another... The young writer appears again on the Brooklyn Bridge, approaches the blind beggar: - Well, how much are they giving you now? He recognized his voice, was terribly happy, grabbed his hand: “Listen, listen!” Now I have twenty, thirty dollars a day! Tell me, what did you write there?! “It’s very simple,” answered the young man, who could only dream of such fees. – I wrote: “Spring will come, but I won’t see it...” (“It only hurts when I laugh”)

Dina Rubina at a creative evening in Lvov

“Leaving the Soviet Union in 1990, I mourned my unfulfilled Odessa, because I was sure that I would never, never find myself on its legendary streets and boulevards... But it just so happened: in the difficult and impoverished 1993, I was already out of Israel was invited to come to Odessa and perform. And now - dank November, once charming, but dilapidated mansions, turned out light bulbs in the entrances, broken windows... Our first meeting with the legendary city somehow did not go well. Or maybe, I thought sadly, Odessa is no longer there, the residents of Odessa have left, only rain, dirt, despondency and desolation remain... With such heavy thoughts, I climbed into the carriage of an empty, in the evening, tram. And the first thing I saw was a poster depicting a lady running across the tram tracks. The drawing was accompanied by a quatrain: Perhaps, dreaming of a stage, of fame, She deviated from the street rules, Forgetting that such carelessness Will literally cut off such an opportunity! Frozen with delight, I lowered my gaze, and on the back of the bench in front of me I saw scratched: “All men are deceivers and pretenders!”, and just below: “You, Rosochka, are not an angel either!” And having already sat down and picked up the left newspaper sheet from the seat, she immediately ran into an advertisement from the Odessa film studio: “For the filming of a new color, wide-format feature film, people with an idiotic expression are required.” And without having time to choke on the swallowed cry of luck, I immediately read in the “Sporting News” section: “Yesterday in Moscow there was a match between the Odessa Chernomorets and the local football team.” No, I thought, Odessa hasn’t gone anywhere, it hasn’t been washed away by the rains, it’s just going through another era of another revolution...” (“It only hurts when I laugh”).

“People walk on the earth. The same people, only adjusted for time and circumstances. And if you understand this and remember it firmly, for the rest of your life, then there will be neither death nor fear on earth...” (“Astral flight of the soul in a physics lesson”)

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Quotes from the stories of the brilliant Dina Rubina...

Dina Rubina is a popular prose writer who writes in Russian. The writer's novels have been translated into Bulgarian, English, Polish, German, and Hebrew. The books are published in hundreds of thousands of copies. Vivid images and witty style allowed Dina Rubina to firmly conquer her niche in modern literature. The author of modern prose was awarded the prize named after. Arie Dulchina (Israel), the Big Book Prize (Russia), the Israel Writers' Union Prize and other awards.

By intelligence I mean, mainly, the rarest innate ability - not to burden others with oneself.

But still, you know, you have to love! You have to fall in love, go crazy, make dates, gasp, shaking your chest, run to the subway! Yes - age, yes - lack of calcium, fluoride, what else... everyone has their own hormonal story. But the soul is still fifteen years old!

...if a woman is smart, then she is more terrible than a smart man: after all, ordinary insight then also acquires emotional, truly bestial sensitivity, catches - from the top, from the pull - what cannot be overcome by any logic

Remember three DON'Ts - DON'T be afraid, DON'T envy, DON'T be jealous. And you will be happy all your life!

As you get older, you realize that you need to change yourself, not your wife...

The cross of fate is made for everyone according to their height even before birth.

I have met a variety of men in my life. Many of them are bright, talented and witty people. But all my life, the most interesting thing for me was with my own husband.

A city becomes a world when you love one of its inhabitants

A woman becomes a woman not when physiology waves its baton, but when she feels crushing power over a man.

Probably, it is human nature to be attached to the places of your childhood and youth... Maybe because in them, like in a mirror, like on the surface of a lake, your image is captured in those years when you were happy...

People we part with in our youth continue to remain new to us, just taken away, and subconsciously we are in no way ready to come to terms with their second-hand appearance when we suddenly meet forty years later.

I tried to get her to speak out so that, as psychologists say, “all the negativity would come out,” although, God knows, in these matters you never know where the pus of negativity dries up and the blood loss of the soul begins.

Real animals are trainers, not animals at all.

It's a pity that people can't be restored like paintings.

Childhood loneliness - I'm talking about a feeling - can only be compared with senile loneliness. The most beloved child in the family, like the grandfather cared for by all his children and grandchildren, regardless of the circumstances, can sense this cosmic cold of the already close abyss. Some are still not far away, others are getting closer.

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It seems that my mother was very pleased that I did not miss the lesson. She was probably right about something fundamentally important. For example, that a child should be instilled with a sense of responsibility. Let it all go to waste... I've lived most of my life, listen. Never, ever force your children to overcome the obstacles of this damned world. On a blizzard evening, let them stay at home. And then, merciful Lord, there is hope that they will all remain alive. Tags: Dina Rubina // On the sunny side of the street // life // children // responsibility //

Adulthood is a clear realization that if, say, you hit your head on a door frame, then most likely it is not the door frame that is to blame. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // life quotes // awareness // adults //

The trouble was that the Chinese did not want to hear about the Chinese. Probably because they were Jews. Tags: Dina Rubina // Our Chinese business // Jews // China //

- Lydia Borisovna! — I exclaimed once again, discovering that the apartment door was not locked. - Do you want to be robbed?! She answered calmly: “It’s better to be robbed once than to shake with fear all your life.” Tags: Dina Rubina // You have to live a long time in Russia... // fear // fearlessness //

Look at it this way - a respectable middle-class citizen, maybe a shopkeeper, maybe a baker. But not the head of thieves. Tags: Kira Strelnikova // Diamond Rainbow. Ruby Dawn // theft //

I won’t be the first one whom love brought to a tragic end. And my company is not the most seedy: the Little Mermaid, Juliet, Pocahontas, the Lady with the Camellias, Madame Butterfly - and now I, Gwendolyn Shepherd, will join them. It would be nice, however, to refuse the fatal blow of a dagger to the heart. I felt so broken that I could easily die of consumption, and this is much more sublime and romantic. Pale and beautiful, like Snow White, I will lie on the bed, my hair flowing beautifully over the pillow. Gideon will kneel before me and indulge in bitter lamentations, what has he done, oh, if only he had listened to my last words... Tags: Kerstin Geer // Timeless. The Ruby Book // Gwendoline Shepherd // funny quotes // death //

Well, smile, I want to kiss your smile. Tags: Dina Rubina // When will it snow? // beautiful quotes // smile // kisses //

It all depends on the sharpness of your gaze: are you able to snatch nature from the thicket or not: a face, a gesture, the meaning of the scene... Of course, the core of our business is reportage photography. There’s no escape from this: yes, ninety percent of the pictures are wasted. But those that remain... It’s always a romance of a second: I saw, fell in love - and the person didn’t even feel anything, because from “fell in love” to “broke up” a moment passes... Tags: Dina Rubina // Russian Canary. Voice // photography //

...Money, of course, can buy freedom. But you can sell it for money. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // ironic quotes // freedom // money //

Writers are wolves, predators. Constantly looking for a story. Otherwise, there is no way to survive in literature. Tags: Dina Rubina // It only hurts when I laugh // motivational quotes // writers // books, literature //

- Come on, everyone knows that you are a successful person - You know, in this life I am a nobody, however, like seven billion others. The only thing that distinguishes me from many is that I at least admit it. Tags: Yesenia Zarubina // person, people // society // morality // philosophy //

Business is a dream come true. I hate those for whom it's just money. Tags: Rick Rubin // life quotes // business // dream //

- And that’s how the monkey turned into a man! - Dad finished. The daughter looked up at him and asked quietly, sincerely: “Wasn’t she surprised?” Tags: Dina Rubina // Leonardo's handwriting // funny quotes // children //

Times are changing, and our society is in an eternal, although not entirely blissful childhood, which circumstance is enshrined even at the level of everyday language, where social ties are built in terms and categories of consanguinity. This is where all these motherland and fatherland leaders come from. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // ironic quotes // society //

There is such a thing as “patriotism,” which, as a rule, means approximately that a manure heap in the middle of one’s own garden is ordered to be loved to the point of rupturing the aorta, while a flowerbed with dahlias in a neighbor’s yard should not cause anything but disgusting disgust. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // ironic quotes // patriotism // envy // sarcasm //

Over the years, life takes away the main thing from a person - anticipation. Tags: Dina Rubina // Syndicate // sad quotes // anticipation // age //

Youth is the most wonderful springboard to overcoming... Tags: Dina Rubina // Russian Canary. Zheltukhin // youth, youth //

— Cookies and whiskey are probably hidden here. And what? I will make you submissive with alcohol. “Since we’re locked here, we need to look again.” - Okay, I'll look for cookies and whiskey. Tags: Timeless. The Ruby Book (Rubinrot) // Gideon de Villers // Gwendoline Shepherd // funny quotes //

...real music is, boy, real melancholy. Especially when it comes to the bassoon, which sings only about what happened and cannot be returned. Tags: Dina Rubina // Leonardo’s handwriting // music //

I've told you hundreds of times: a mess should be treated like a still life. Tags: Dina Rubina // On Verkhnyaya Maslovka // positive quotes // disorder //

Only in one feeling is a person great and defenseless at the same time. Only one feeling can make him commit an insane feat or crime. He deifies only one feeling, curses, calls and waits all his life with frantic persistence. This feeling is love. What kind of life will we get in our only life? Love is ascension. Love is a fall. Love is a curse. Love is a quiet joy. Love is an eternal wait. Just love. Tags: Dina Rubina // Adam and Miriam // love //

“I saw other Gems merging.” But I didn’t think that you would disappear like that. - This is not true at all! Every time I merged with others, it was still me, only... bigger and... I never had a third eye. “I’ve never had more than one.” Tags: Steven Universe // Sapphire // Ruby //

...It is impossible to call an asshole anything other than an asshole without losing the meaning. And the meaning is the most important thing. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // ironic quotes //

And the validity of the famous ancient rabbinical decree, according to which for five hundred years after the expulsion from Spain, Jews were forbidden to set foot on that God-cursed land, expired already in 1992. Tags: Dina Rubina // Cold spring in Provence // Jews // exile //

There is nothing more seductive and at the same time more absurd than speaking on behalf of a generation. “My generation chooses...”, “my generation does not accept...” This is utter nonsense. What could be more stupid and, most importantly, more irresponsible? Well, except to speak in the name of “people”, “nation” and even profession. “We physicists love semolina porridge in the morning.” Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // life quotes //

“You were talking to the arch again, Gwendolyn.” I definitely saw it. - Yes, Gordon. This is my favorite arc. She gets offended when I pass by and don't say hello. Tags: Kerstin Geer // Timeless. The Ruby Book // Gwendolyn Shepherd // Gordon Gelderman //

Now I am already sure that my whole life has walked along the edge of Yours; I was an echo, usually the distant calling voice of the bassoon, which played on Your theme. Tags: Dina Rubina // Leonardo’s handwriting // feelings // love // ​​relationships //

Art sometimes consciously, and more often unconsciously, takes on the functions of those organs of the social organism that refuse to work. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // life quotes // art //

And in general, this is a terrible thing - visiting seriously ill people. You feel sorry for him and put on a sympathetic face, but you yourself think about how not to oversleep for fishing tomorrow. Tags: Dina Rubina // When will it snow? //

— Did you know Alexander the Blessed, I ask you? I see from your face that you did not know this great man. And I saw him, almost like I see you now. That is, it’s not that I knew Alexander the Blessed, or my God. And he didn’t see me, because he was lying dead in a coffin. He was taken to St. Petersburg from the city of Taganrog. - Why are you telling me about this, grandfather? — The Ghoul wrinkled his forehead. - Why do I need your king in his coffin? The old man raised his yellow finger instructively: “And then, Monsieur the Robber, if you deceive us, you will also be carried in a coffin, and Naum Rubinchik will come to look at you.” Tags: Boris Akunin // Lover of Death // Naum Rubinchik // ironic quotes // lies, deception //

A patriot is a man who lives in a hut with a thatched roof, but is passionately proud of the fact that his master has the tallest house in the entire volost. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // ironic quotes // patriotism //

Only fools are the main instructors in any matter... Tags: Dina Rubina // Parsley syndrome // fools //

Yes, we all either overcome many temptations or succumb to them. Most often it is both. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // life quotes // temptation //

... Punishment is when you are deprived of your reason, conscience, taste and moral instinct. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // life quotes // punishment //

And not far from here lived the composer Kozlovsky, the one who picked up a wounded stork in his garden and nursed him back to health. He could no longer fly, but spent his days walking around the yard and garden for many years... And when the composer died, the stork, like a mourning sentry, stood for three days at the head of the coffin, on one leg... Tags : Dina Rubina // On the sunny side of the street / / loyalty //

Nobody demands heroic deeds from you. But there is always a choice. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // life quotes // feat // choice //

...War is always disgusting, even if you fight for the brightest ideals, for your home, for your loved ones, for freedom. War kills and maims not only physically. It cripples souls and dislocates brains. It mobilizes the most vile and dark in people. But so do the most noble and heroic things. This is war. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // sad quotes // war //

The sail is torn, the oars are broken. Storm and sea around. This is the lot fate has sent us, my poor friend. We are not given a serene old age, a pink sunset. Broken oars, torn sail, Fiery whirlpool. Tags: Cherubina de Gabriak (Elizaveta Dmitrieva) // inevitability, rock, fate //

You are a slave to your craft, your name mark, your skill. So pull your double galley. Tags: Dina Rubina // Cold spring in Provence // work // slavery // craft //

Everything is quickly forgotten. Including what has been the material and essential background of your existence for many years. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // life quotes //

Remember three DON'Ts - DON'T be afraid, DON'T envy, DON'T be jealous. And you will be happy all your life! Tags: Dina Rubina // It only hurts when I laugh // happiness //

As a child, it is very difficult to distinguish magic from the triumph of spirituality. Tags: Rick Rubin // life quotes // spirituality // childhood // magic, wizards //

... How did I manage to love you? Don't fall in love; It’s a piece of cake for me to fall in love with a picturesque face. But no: it’s unbearable to love like an abscess in the heart, and it’s impossible to live when you take your hand away... Tags: Dina Rubina // Russian Canary. Prodigal Son // love //

“There is nothing more sickening than protocol truth.” And truth has many clothes and many faces. She has a very well-equipped dressing room! <…> - I don’t understand! On the contrary, I need to extract the core of truth, at least a grain, from every moment of my life. But the truth is naked, without clothes, without makeup. I managed to extract a grain of truth - then it remained forever, this moment. But it didn’t work out, well, that means... it was all in vain. - What's in vain? “Then it went out, a moment of life,” she calmly explained. - Gone, dispelled... After all, it cannot be reproduced like some kind of opera production. Life does not tolerate duplicates. Tags: Dina Rubina // Russian Canary. Prodigal Son // truth // life //

I’ll take a thousand plans to tomorrow: it’s not too late. My coffin is still making noise in the forest. He is a tree. He nurses nests. Tags: Frantisek Grubin // sad quotes // tomorrow // plans // forest //

A writer sees the world differently from birth. He is an outsider in it: he does not live, but observes. Tags: Dina Rubina // It only hurts when I laugh // meaningful quotes // writers //

- I'm ready. And you, princess? - If you are ready, then I am ready. Tags: Kerstin Geer // Timeless. The Ruby Book // Lucy Montrose // Paul De Villers //

Our history is not a series of successive ideas. This is only a “change of milestones,” that is, a change in authoritative vocabulary and phraseology adopted - sometimes not only figuratively, but also in the literal sense of the word - by the next power elite, as they would say these days. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // ironic quotes // history //

I know there are people who put both feet on their old goodness in order to appear a little taller... Tags: Dina Rubina // Cold spring in Provence // sad quotes // goodness // people, people //

As you get older, you realize that you need to change yourself, not your wives... Tags: Dina Rubina // White Dove of Cordoba // Eduard (married for the 3rd time) // husbands // wives //

- Why did you come here - to check on me? Well, then let's talk. - Let's talk! - he agreed. And we fell silent. Tags: Dina Rubina // When will it snow? // silence // conversation, conversation //

While you are looking for one, society is already creating another, you will never eradicate the problem, because it is in you. Tags: Yesenia Zarubina // life // society //

Spring breeze in my hair Play of shadows of houses Smiles of passers-by Waiting for my tram, my number 86, rushing towards the falling cherry blossoms I will forever go into the spring sun, I will spill the first rain on the ground, Well, for now, I’m just a boy who dared to play hide and seek with death. Tags: Yesenia Zarubina // sad quotes // pain // life // depression //

... In any turn of life I want to see the root of common sense. Tags: Dina Rubina // Syndicate // life // common sense // perception //

...And I know him and have always known him before... He was a boy... her boy, with whom they had to run around everywhere hand in hand... So that’s who was appointed, that’s who she had to go out and swoop in on and earn... That’s who I should have walked alongside him all my life, but - some mistake in calculations - until this day I slipped past. And it suddenly appeared - so painfully - almost at the end of the orbits... Tags: Dina Rubina // Leonardo’s handwriting //

...The war years were the most non-Soviet years in the entire Soviet history. This was the only episode when the interests of the state and society, the state and individuals practically coincided on most points. Everything was very clear and clear: we were attacked, they want to destroy us, we must fight to save and protect our homes and our relatives. Although objectively it turned out that at the same time they saved the Politburo, Comrade Stalin, the NKVD, collective farms, and the Gulag. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // sad quotes // USSR // war //

Once in my youth I saw a coffin on twelve legs hurriedly mincing across the road. Like a centipede. Tags: Dina Rubina // On the sunny side of the street // funeral //

The heat sometimes becomes the main news trigger. And such idiomatic expressions as “heated discussion” or “hotline” are rapidly losing their metaphorical nature. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // life quotes // heat //

I sometimes wonder by what criteria I define “my people.” Who do I tend to define as “socially close”? As a result, the whole sum of the characteristics I sort through comes down to a simple formula: I consider those who find the same things funny or not funny as me to be the most “mine.” “My people” are those with whom I don’t have to re-enter cultural conventions every time. These are those for whom ideas about style and vulgarity, if not the same, are mutually understandable. These are the ones who don’t need to explain anything; all you need to do is look at each other. This is most likely not universal. But it's reliable. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein //

Remember to do the impossible to achieve the possible. Tags: Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein // motivating quotes // motivation // opportunities //

You can't live that long. It turns out that this is a great inconvenience for loved ones, who may get tired of waiting for your decent death, and out of annoyance throw out an ugly move, for example, die before you. Tags: Dina Rubina // On Verkhnyaya Maslovka // life //

Don't strain your ligaments. <…> You have one paint: purity. Poor, but beautiful, like angels in old church stained glass windows. Sin always has a richer arsenal of means. Tags: Dina Rubina // Russian Canary. Prodigal Son // purity // sin // voice //

...Everyone has their own sedums. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // life quotes //

...I beg you very much, don’t talk to me about love. I can't hear about your love. Finally, understand that when you say: “I love you,” you put one meaning into these words, but I extract a completely different meaning from them. It's like you put an orange in a hat and I take a rabbit out of it. And then you ask me: is it delicious? And I’m immediately horrified: do I need to kill him? And eat it? But I, on the contrary, feed him carrots, and his nose moves, and his pink ears shine through in the sun. And you, well, by the way, suggest: let me clean it for you. I imagine this, and I immediately feel sick. I feel sick, my head is spinning... Well, okay, I say, clean it... And I leave the house so as not to see it. I come back an hour later, and you’re sitting in a chair, there are orange peels all over the floor, and the rabbit is nowhere to be found. You put a slice of orange in my mouth, and I immediately vomit from the taste of fresh blood. I think: killer. You think: hysterical... Tags: Gala Rubinstein // Funny habits of people //

I’m not sure that “education” can grow a personality. Sometimes, on the contrary, a personality grows in spite of some pressure, grows in defiance - and suddenly you are amazed: - oh, my God, but this is already a person. We can already talk. Tags: Dina Rubina // It only hurts when I laugh // life quotes // personality // education //

I already suspected that in current cinema it is not the gods who burn the pots. But so - not gods and so much - pots?.. Tags: Dina Rubina // Camera zooms in // cinema //

She was the wife of an intelligence officer and knew very well who she was dealing with. As simple as a blow to the head, blackmail is always more effective than any fucking diplomacy. Tags: Dina Rubina // Russian Canary. Prodigal son // blackmail //

He says that in the village they set up a church in the Village Council. <...> We go from one extreme to the other: sometimes they build stables from churches, sometimes they build churches from stables. Tags: Dina Rubina // Syndicate // life quotes // religion, church // extremes //

No, mantras don’t save anyone when their own heels are quietly smoldering. Tags: Dina Rubina // Russian Canary. Prodigal son // torture //

How bitter it is to realize that we have become strangers without crossing the painful line. Why, before the end, do you ask the name of the One who you were not? He was completely different and called me differently, - No one calls me so affectionately... You see, your mouth curls painfully, When I cry about him. You have known everything for a long time, my unlucky friend. You are only waiting for a repetition of torment in my answer. And the name of the dear one is a dead sound: He is no longer in the world. Tags: Cherubina de Gabriac (Elizaveta Dmitrieva) // sad quotes //

There is one tower there, the legend to it is simple: Love can kill when it is ordered by the father. Tags: Bird // Tato // Rubies //

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones. Tags: Helena Rubinstein // women // beauty // laziness //

If my heart breaks, what will you do with the ridiculous pieces? Tags: Dina Rubina // When will it snow? // beautiful quotes // love // ​​heart //

...Any words arranged in a certain order are a potential quote. Can, for example, the phrase “my uncle” be considered a quote from Pushkin? An interesting question, as they say. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // words // quotes about quotes //

After a year of wandering around the Russian outback, Moscow began to seem to me like a mirage, a giant flying saucer that accidentally landed on the banks of the Moscow River and was ready at any moment to take off and disappear into the bottomless belly of the Universe. Tags: Dina Rubina // Syndicate // Moscow // comparison //

... people with whom we part in our youth continue to remain new to us, just taken away, and subconsciously we are in no way ready to come to terms with their second-hand appearance when we suddenly meet forty years later... Tags: Dina Rubina // On the sunny side of the street / / separation // age //

-... Take your time, you have a lot of time. - How do you know how much time I have? - I brought it with me. — The doctor takes a large hourglass out of his suitcase and puts it on a stack of books next to my bed. - When you need time, just turn them over. Tags: Gala Rubinstein // Far out into the sea, the water is blue, blue, like the petals of the most beautiful cornflowers // time //

In fact, nothing happens to a person - his core. He still longs for happiness, he wants to read about human passions, because he either suppressed them in himself or lives by them. Man is always love, hatred, patience. But what really changes a person terribly now, I don’t know what else will happen to children, is the Internet, social networks. This is a spreading through some millions of different communications, a constant desire to get away from oneself, not to allow oneself to be alone with oneself and look into oneself, the inability to occupy oneself. And in this new novel [Russian Canary] I needed to win over this reader, to force: “Sit down and read.” Because the modern person gives up everything and sits with this iPad, iPhone, Aishmon and cannot tear himself away from this screen, going into the bad infinity of bad talk, completely empty. A person on the Internet is relieved, freed from talking with himself and with his interlocutor, but at the same time not freed from his complexes or from the greedy search for passions. Tags: Dina Rubina // person, people // Internet, network //

I just wanted to ask you for a long time, dad... I understand that love for a woman can pass... But it always seemed to me that love for your child, at least while he is alive, is an enduring feeling. Isn't that right? Tags: Dina Rubina // Astral flight of the soul during a physics lesson // life quotes // love // ​​parents //

“You are an extraordinary girl, Gwendolyn,” he whispered, stroking my hair. -You are very, very unusual. And a raven doesn’t need any magic to be special to me,” his face was very close. When his lips touched mine, I closed my eyes. Tags: Kerstin Geer // Timeless. Ruby Book // Gideon de Villers // beautiful quotes // kisses //

Details break the integrity of the impression. Tags: Dina Rubina // Parsley syndrome // meaningful quotes // details, little things // integrity //

The biggest influence on my taste in music is that I am an only child. People usually learn about music from their older brothers and sisters. When you're eleven, whether you like it or not, your starting point is what your 14-year-old brother or sister listens to. But I didn’t have them, and that always makes people go on their own searches. Tags: Rick Rubin // individuality // quotes about yourself //

From then on, she could clearly explain what mind games were. This is when bubbles boil in your head, like in a glass of lemonade, and your brain bubbles, and something starts clicking and clicking... Multi-colored numbers will run, merging and dividing again, completely alive... Pictures chaotically emerge to the surface, rise, gain volume, and there, inside the forehead, they are reflected in a whole gallery of mirrors, lining up in minuet pairs, floating in script, arabesques, slender magical patterns; one replaces the other, melts, finally splashing out the reflection of a wondrous kaleidoscopic dawn, to fade away and bloom again, like a tapestry, on a velvety cherry, lilac, blue-night pulsating background... This is when she sits and does not understand how so much time has passed... Tags: Dina Rubina // Leonardo's handwriting // Main character // beautiful quotes //

... there is no need to hunt for love somewhere outside of yourself. All that is needed is to break down the internal barriers that prevent us from finding love. Tags: Elif Shafak // Forty rules of love // ​​Ella Rubinstein // beautiful quotes // love //

On the one hand, living in our country [Russia], you cannot help but joke, since only this alone saves you from bottomless existential despair. On the other hand, joking is always dangerous. And not only in the sense that it is dangerous for the life and health of the joker himself. This is also dangerous because any joke has the amazing ability to become brutal reality. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // ironic quotes // joke //

The main decoration of his “cavalier” - a small room with a toilet (there was no bathroom), where I once looked without asking - was a superbly executed pre-war advertisement for Polish condoms, in my current opinion, brilliantly simple: just one, with the inscription under it: “ Predzej ci serce peknie!” - “Your heart will probably burst!” Tags: Dina Rubina // Parsley syndrome // funny quotes //

Mrs. Holland learned of Henry Hopkins' death from an old friend of hers, a woman who performed some suspicious duties in the workhouse across the street. She, in turn, heard this from a factory girl, whose brother was sweeping the very street where there was a newspaper shop, the owner of which had a cousin - the same one who talked with the man who found the body. All crime news in London was spread in this simple way. Tags: Philip Pullman // Ruby in the Dark // funny quotes // rumors, gossip // news //

You can judge a lot by who quotes what and who responds to which quotes (or quasi-quotes). Some quote TV commercials, others quote Pushkin and Gogol. Some are replicas of characters from popular cartoons, others are from Kharms or Mandelstam. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // life quotes // quotes about quotes //

Childhood loneliness - I'm talking about a feeling - can only be compared with senile loneliness. The most beloved child in the family, like the grandfather cared for by all his children and grandchildren, regardless of the circumstances, can sense this cosmic cold of the already close abyss. Some are still not far away, others are getting closer. Tags: Dina Rubina // On the sunny side of the street // loneliness // childhood //

He always knew how to leave in such a way that everyone wanted to jump up and run after him, to bring him back. And this, I think, is a gift from God - to be able to leave in such a time that everyone wants to return you. Tags: Dina Rubina // When will it snow? // care // timeliness //

The artist Anton Hirschig, Van Gogh's neighbor, with whom he never communicated, as well as with the other artists living in Auvers, later recalled “his wild, crazy eyes, into which no one dared to look.” Tags: Dina Rubina // Cold spring in Provence // artist // eyes //

... finally began to recover from this binge love and in the end survived, nothing happened... Tags: Dina Rubina // Voice in the subway //

They say the difference between the love of southerners and northerners - do you know what? In the South they love who they sleep with. And in the North they sleep with those they love... Tags: Dina Rubina // Scarf // love //

He is a typical demagogue <...>, this is his calling, and all of humanity has greatly sinned before him. Translators are to blame for translating, sculptors for sculpting, actors for playing, architects for building... It’s a misfortune - just as a person can’t do anything, he understands everything and teaches everyone... Tags: Dina Rubina // On Verkhnyaya Maslovka // life quotes // character // criticism //

One man's wealth is another man's poverty. Tags: Gretchen Rubin // Project Happiness // wealth //

Only once, alone, like a fern, do I bloom with the fire of a spring, drunken night... Come for me to the forest center, into the sworn circle, come, pluck me. Love me. I am close to you all. Oh, give in to my love's corruption. I, like an almond, are deadly and bitter, more tender than death, more deceptive and bitter. Tags: Cherubina de Gabriac (Elizaveta Dmitrieva) // love // ​​intimacy //

...Life is still stranger than all the forecasts of the most insightful forecasters. Tags: Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein // Signs of attention (collection) // life quotes // life //

Let's put it this way: travel, the opportunity to see the world in all its beautiful and disgusting features somewhat soften our initial rejection of the “other.” They instill something like humility, they make you realize that you will never, never understand the soul of another person to the very bottom. We are different. We are weird. Let's deal with it. Tags: Dina Rubina // It only hurts when I laugh // life quotes // travel // tolerance, tolerance //

Music is not a hobby for me, or even a passion. Music is me. Tags: Arthur Rubinstein // music // hobby // passion //

Oh, about tea, you know, I am completely Russian, or rather a perfect Englishman, that is, a Kazakh is a Kazakh: feel free to pour milk to the very edge! Tags: Dina Rubina // Russian Canary. Zheltukhin // tea //

What is a ruby

Precious corundums of red shades are usually called rubies. The modern name of the stone comes from the Greek word, which means 'red', or from the Sanskrit word, which translates as 'king of precious stones'.

The history of the stone is very ancient and began 2000 years ago. What else is known about rubies?

Nature and properties

Rubies are often confused with spinel, tourmaline, garnets and beryl, but a specialist can distinguish a natural stone. Here are the main properties of ruby:

Ruby in magic, astrology and healing

In the book "Gemstones in Myth and Legend," expert George Frederick Koontz talks about the Indian belief that the ruby ​​gives them absolute security. How to use the magic of stone for your own purposes?

Magic properties

If work involves a risk to life, ruby ​​talismans are the best protective amulet. The stone gives a powerful charge of strength and good spirits, and inspires heroic deeds. To make the right decision in a critical situation, touch the ruby ​​amulet.

Thanks to its powerful energy, ruby ​​makes a person independent of other people’s opinions, relieves the torment of doubts and mental pain. With its help, people with complex characters will be able to overcome negative traits and find harmony and balance. The strongest psychics and magicians wear ruby ​​amulets to accumulate their abilities.

Infodays

By intelligence I mean, mainly, the rarest innate ability - not to burden others with oneself.

Dina Rubina (born September 19, 1953) is a living classic of modern literature. She has written such wonderful novels as: “Leonardo’s Handwriting”, “The White Dove of Cordoba”, “Parsley Syndrome” and many others. The author’s trilogy “Russian Canary” was included in the shortlist for the 2015 Big Book Award.

We have selected fifteen quotes from her books: