28 junho 2017

"Were we all, the whole upper crust of Russian society, so totally insensitive, so horribly obtuse,..."

“Were we all, the whole upper crust of Russian society, so totally insensitive, so horribly obtuse, as not to feel that the charmed life we were leading was in itself an injustice and hence could not possibly last?”

- Nicolas Nabokov, on pre-revolutionary Russia. The quote is from his book,  Bagázh: Memoirs of a Russian Cosmopolitan

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