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Leonid Andreyev

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (Russian: Леони́д Никола́евич Андре́ев, 21 August [O.S. 9 August] 1871 – 12 September 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period. Andreyev's style combines elements of realist, naturalist, and symbolist schools in literature.

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All perishes, all decays, all is born again.

Born, Born Again, Decay, Decays, Perishes

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Death, Loss, Post, Reason, War

Do you not see the hand of God, which gives harmony, light, and love to the world? Do not the mountains, in the blue cloud of incense, sing their hymn of glory?

Clouds, Gives, God, Light, Love

Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Bad, Leaves, Like, Love Is, May, Mouths

Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

Darkness, Dies, Men, Time, Trace, Void

See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!

Bucklers, Heart, Let, Power, Rain, Strong

Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.

Blink, Littles, Optimism, Owl, Smile

Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.

Birth, Births, Deaths, Way, World

Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

Devil, Love, Man, Men

What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

Afraid, Asking, Drowning, Like, Men, Worse

Only the dead know the truth.

Dead, Know, Knows, Truth

Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.

Blind, Footsteps, Long, Short, Thoughts

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

Equal, Faces, Infinity, Knows, Wisdom

When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.

Men, Shame, Weeps, Woman, Women

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

Death, Man, Men, Neck, Rope

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

Argument, Convincing, Dynamite, Instruments, Powerful

Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

Augments, Death, Distance, Memories

The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.

Brain, Intellect, Mankind, Men, Muddled, Paper

Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.

Away, Barely, Dark, Sleep, Stars

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Animal, Danger, Generosity, Knows, Men, Murderers

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