5 Quotes & Sayings By Olga Grushin

Olga Grushin is a Russian writer, journalist, book editor, and publisher. She is the author of many popular books, including “Rasskazy otkryvayuschego” (“The Adventures of the Open-Minded Man”). She has published articles in numerous national publications, including "Literaturnaya Gazeta" (“Literary Gazette”), “Novy Mir” (“New World”), “Perepisok.ru” (“Notes.Ru”), “Gazeta.ru” (“The Gazette”), "Kultura" (Russia's largest cultural journal) and the Web magazine “My Story".

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Half asleep, he wondered whether that might not have been his happiest day ever, the last, perfect day swelling with the immensity of his secret intent, secret creation–the day before everything changed–the day before he realized, for the first time, yet with absolute finality, just how small his private immensity really was when measured against that other vast, dark, impersonal immensity, call it God, or history, or simply life. Olga Grushin
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The night embraces me, cool and endless, and above me the stars are tiny holes in the darkness through which the light of eternity is pouring out. I can almost sense primordial stardust flowing through my veins. People are forever telling me that stars make them feel small, and I always nod noncommittally and wonder at the stuffy confinement of their minds. Stars make me feel vast. Olga Grushin
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... but as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them. Olga Grushin
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... this stray little thought released in him some echo of the past, a solitary trembling note whose sound rose higher and higher in his chest, awakening inarticulate longings and, inseparable from them, a piercing, unfamiliar sorrow. Olga Grushin