Vladimir Odoyevsky

Quotes

• “(Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of ma...”
• “Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of the...”
• “It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters...”
• “Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, wh...”
• “In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.”
• “The soulless have no need of melancholia”