Татьяна и Александр

Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are — Unyielding.

We walk alone through this world, but if we’re lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.

You can’t protect yourself against me—and I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.

Neutral does not imply indifferent.

In the largest country in the world, sprawled over one sixth of the earth’s land mass, one half tundra and permafrost, one quarter steppe, one eighth coniferous forest, part desert, part arable land, with the largest lake in the world, the largest sea in the world, the largest protected border in the world, the largest socialist experiment in the world, was Alexander.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew, to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you, except the will which says to them, ‘Hold on!

All we have is our past, which we detest and dissect and wring our hands over.

Everything Americans do, produce, create is to make life little bit easier.

Memory—that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.

How to express that never before had a million soldiers turned away from their own army and joined the side of the hated enemy on their own soil against their own people.