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Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

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Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

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Bad literature is a form of treason.

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A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

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