“There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.” ThinkingHeartLongBookSoulSufferingDiesBornLive Your LifeDefiniteExteriorLong SufferingAnalysing Author:Paullina Simons
“In every remodelling of the present, the existing condition of things must be supplanted by a new one. Now every variety of circumstances in which men find themselves, every object which surrounds them, communicates a definite form and impress to their internal nature. This form is not such that it can change and adapt itself to any other a man may choose to receive; and the end is foiled, while the power is destroyed, when we attempt to impose upon that which is already stamped in the soul a form which disagrees with it.” MenMaySoulEndsFormConditionsObjectsCircumstancesCommunicateDestroyedVarietyInternalsSurroundDisagreeImpressDefinite Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt