Quotes (2054)
Although they say about such people that they love everyone and therefore are kind, but, in essence, they do not love anyone and are kind only because they are not evil.
Pyotr Ivanovich put down his pen and looked at his nephew. He blushed. “Don’t you notice anything in my face?” - he asked. - Something is stupid. Wait a minute. Are you in love?
Pyotr Ivanovich put down his pen and looked at his nephew. He blushed. “Don’t you notice anything in my face?” - he asked. - Something is stupid. Wait a minute. You... Expand
Some people have nothing else to do but talk. There is such a calling.
A short, daily rapprochement with a person is not free for either one or the other: a lot is needed on both sides of life experience, logic and heartfelt warmth, so that, while enjoying only the merits, you do not prick and prick yourself with mutual shortcomings.
A short, daily rapprochement with a person is not free for either one or the other: a lot is needed on both sides of life experience, logic and warmth,... Expand
“Yes, godfather, until there are no more idiots in Rus' who sign papers without reading them, our brother can live.”
Friendship drowned in love.
Friendship is a good thing when it is love between a young man and woman or a memory of love between old people. But God forbid, if it is friendship on the one hand, love on the other.
Friendship is a good thing when it is love between a young man and woman or a memory of love between old people. But God forbid, if on the one hand it is friendship,... Expand
- And maybe I’ll get married! - Alexander said in his uncle’s ear. - Close the valve, Alexander!
There are people in whom, no matter how much you fight, you cannot arouse the spirit of enmity, vengeance, etc. Whatever you do with them, they still caress. However, we must give them justice that their love, if divided into degrees, never reaches the level of heat. Although they say about such people that they love everyone and therefore are kind, but in essence they do not love anyone and are kind only because they are not evil.
There are people in whom, no matter how much you fight, you cannot arouse the spirit of enmity, vengeance, etc. Whatever you do with them, they still caress. However, we must give them justice... Expand
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Quotes from Goncharov
Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin
I present to you a selection of quotes from the writer Ivan Goncharov (1812 - 1891).
He traditionally stands somewhat apart from the classics of Russian literature of the 19th century.
Quotes are summarized by topic: love, human manifestations, women, life, friendship, happiness, relationships, literature, memories, nutrition, man, marriage, heart, knowledge, men, mind, fantasies.
About love
Love is less demanding than friendship; it is even often blind; people love not for their merits. But for love you need something, sometimes trifles, that cannot be defined or named.
Both soul and body participate equally in love; otherwise love is incomplete: we are not spirits or animals.
To love means not to belong to oneself, to stop living for oneself, to move into the existence of another, to concentrate all human feelings on one object - hope, fear, sorrow, pleasure; to love means to live in the infinite.
Love does not forget a single detail. In her eyes, everything that touches her favorite object is an important fact.
Lovers are all like this: sometimes they are very blind, sometimes they are too perspicacious.
Great love is inseparable from a deep mind; The breadth of the mind is equal to the depth of the heart. That is why great hearts, and they are also great minds, reach the extreme heights of humanity.
Love is a very difficult school of life.
Ah, if only I could experience this warmth of love and not experience its worries!
The deed is done: she has already loved, and it is impossible to throw off love arbitrarily, like a dress.
There is no peace in love, and it moves somewhere forward, forward.
Writers, critics, researchers about Goncharov: selected quotes
“Oblomov’s Dream”... - an episode which, however, has so much wholeness and completeness in itself that it can be called a separate story - is an example of that new work, which, no doubt, will renew, if not strengthen, the wonderful impressions left in readers two years before this, “Ordinary History” published in Sovremennik. In this episode, Mr. Goncharov’s pen and brush again appears in all its artistic perfection, so remarkable in the department of the smallest details of Russian life, pictures of nature and various, living scenes.
Nekrasov N.A. <Oblomov's Dream>. St. Petersburg, 1849. // Contemporary. 1849. No. 4. Dept. 3.
Oblomov and Oblomovism: it was not for nothing that these words spread throughout Russia and became words forever rooted in our speech. They explained to us a whole range of phenomena of modern society, they presented us with a whole world of ideas, images and details that we had not yet fully realized... Oblomov was studied and recognized by a whole people, mostly rich in Oblomovism... Mr. Goncharov should not descend so deep into the depths of Oblomovism , the same Oblomovism... might seem to us sad, poor, pitiful, worthy of empty laughter. Now you can laugh at Oblomovism, but this laughter is full of pure love and honest tears, you can regret its victims, but such regret will be poetic and bright, not humiliating for anyone, but for many a high and wise regret.
Druzhinin A.V. "Oblomov." Roman I.A. Goncharova. St. Petersburg, 1859. //Beautiful and Eternal. M., 1988. P. 445.
“An Ordinary Story” is Goncharov’s first work - a huge sprout that has just emerged from the ground, not yet strong, green, but overflowing with fresh juices. Then, on the mighty shoot, two magnificent flowers bloom one after another - “Oblomov” and “Obryv”. All three works are one epic, one life, one plant. When you approach it, you see that a whole dew of barely noticeable drops, precious artistic little things, is scattered across its colossal petals. And you don’t know what to admire more - the beauty of the entire giant plant or these small drops in which the sun, earth and sky are reflected.
Merezhkovsky D.S. Goncharov. St. Petersburg, 1890. //The novel “Oblomov” in Russian criticism. P. 179.
As we see, we have before us an ordinary story, and it is terrible, like life itself, if you comprehend it in its depths. And Goncharov stubbornly follows the material, like all Russians, who in their analytical aspiration dissolve the smallest and most inconspicuous action in the subtlest flows of the narrative. Russian, however, is primarily the type itself - in all its features, which the poet secretly carefully observed. Never before have anyone depicted with such psychological pedantry the small comforts with which the hero surrounded himself, the lethargy of his awakening. His art of self-justification and self-hypnosis in the name of laziness; one could consider Oblomov a one-of-a-kind genius in the art of idleness, if it were not known that Russians... even in the simplest and meagerest things can put a thousandfold complications..."
Stefan Zweig. A triumph of inertia. 1902.
Just as Ostrovsky described the dark kingdom of the merchants, so Goncharov depicted the lordly Oblomovism in a huge picture... Goncharov’s simplicity and truthfulness in the construction of the novel are combined with architectural harmony, creating a strong aesthetic impression. This is, in particular, the composition of “Oblomov” - the drama of the hero’s three ascents and his three breakdowns. Goncharov’s landscape is also simple and truthful. Simple and artistic language...
Piksanov N.K. Master of critical realism I.A. Goncharov. L., 1952. S. 22–24.
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