I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.