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I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

— Malcolm Muggeridge Like It Was: The Diaries (1981)

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To paraphrase: Everything happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

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