January 2011
6 posts
Kolakowski Quote
whatwhileweslept:
“Since communism was awful (as it indeed was), it will be normal to believe that the precommunist past, czarist Russia in particular, was an unceasing festival of hilarity.”
Leszek Kolakowski
via Miss_Russia
many people have also believed this about my life
they are wrong
also reminds me of a recent tweet i read by alex berenson
“Depressing Russian...
“Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as...”
– Javier Marias (via theparisreview)