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1 " When everything is fine, it's easy to be together: it's like a dream, all you have to worry about is breathing and the rest takes care of itself. You have to be together when things are bad -- that's why people get married. "
― Valentin Rasputin , Live and Remember
2 " As the soil was renewed, so one's feelings seemed to change, uniting in some inexplicable way with a distant age when the eyes and ears of men were more alert to sights, sounds, and fine distinctions. "
― Valentin Rasputin , Money For Maria And Borrowed Time: Two Village Tales
3 " Life was life so that it could go on, it could take everything and survive anywhere, even on bare rock or shifting sands, and if necessary, even under water, but why torture it this way for no good reason, creating totally unnecessary difficulties for people, why worry about small conveniences and create major inconveniences? "
― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora
4 " Believe them and they'll tell you all sorts of things. "
5 " Believe them and they'll you all sorts of things. "
6 " Everything that lived on earth had one meaning only: to serve. "
7 " Who could say why worthwhile people have worthless children? "
8 " What do we mean by individuality? It is a unified plurality, an enlargement of one's possibilities and their subordination to the principal purpose that determines all. Without a purpose, individuality does not exist. "
― Valentin Rasputin , Siberia on Fire: Stories and Essays
9 " Let others do as they wished, but she would live the life she began and would not run from corner to corner in a frenzy. She would wait for her own happiness, not someone else's. "
10 " You're afraid of people's judgment…What do you care! People are like dogs; whenever anyone makes a wrong move they set up a holler. They bark and then they stop--and wait for someone else to go wrong. "
11 " Lately, Nastoyna felt that she had no right to criticize anyone at all -- no man, no animal, no bird, because each lived his own life, which was not in his control and which he could not change. "
12 " Let them, let them scratch where it itches, it's a real human itch to gossip, to go over someone's bones until they're picked clean. They can't live without it. And you just keep quiet, do your work, and don't taunt them--they'll stop sooner. And then it'll be someone else's turn, and you'll be with the others again. Is this the first time? The very thing they blame you for, they'll praise you for later. People… "
13 " A person gets old not when he reaches old age, but, when he stops being a child. "
14 " How can anyone not drink?...Is anyone fool enough not to want to feel good? The day you have a drink's always like a holiday. If you only now when to stop. "
15 " How can anyone not drink?...Is anyone fool enough not to want to feel good? The day you have a drink's always like a holiday. If you only know when to stop. "
16 " In the olden days, at least, they knew when to stop. ""Now they don't any more. In the olden days they had some shame as well.""Yes, now they ain't got no shame either. "
17 " There's nothing left holy in the world for you. Herods! "
18 " هم يضحكون: الكبير(العجوز) مثل الصغير، ويقصدون بذلك أن أحدهما فقد عقله، أما الثاني لم يمتلكه بعد. هذا صحيح، الكبير والصغير هما فقط القادران بحساسية وحدة أن يُدهَشا لوجودهما، ولكل ما يحيط بهما في كل خطوة. "
― Valentin Rasputin , المهلة الأخيرة
19 " I might have wanted another destiny for myself, but others have theirs, and I have mine. And I'm not sorry about it. It's mine. "
― Valentin Rasputin
20 " Those of us who where there would not have survived without those of you who remained here. Because the man fights and the woman feeds, the man hates the enemy and the woman a thousand miles away softens his heart with herself and the children so that his heart won't turn to stone. "
