“It was only when I myself turned into a bug that I understood why I was looking at nature”
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February 4 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Prishvin, the “singer of Russian nature”, who described in detail his meetings with her in his works. He himself, however, considered his main work to be a diary, which he kept for almost 50 years. It really shows that the forces of history interested Prishvin no less than the forces of nature, and his curiosity as a naturalist was also aroused by relations between people.
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You won’t understand whether I myself enter time or time enters me, it doesn’t matter: without knowing anything in politics and diplomacy, you feel modern. I just have to wait for my time to grab the handle of time, hang on to her train and rush.
February 11, 1945
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Only now, when I myself had turned into a bug, did I understand why I always looked at small living creatures in nature with such kindred attention: I sympathized with them, foreseeing the possibility and inevitable necessity of my own reincarnation into such a worldly detail.
October 31, 1941
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Previously, it seemed to me that everything written was written about the past, and since it has already been written, then people will not return to it again, and the book is written like an inscription on a tombstone. And now I look at life and read a book, and everything turns upside down: in the book – passed, in life everything that has been passed a thousand times begins again.
December 8, 1937
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A fundamental resentment makes another person take up a pen, another a browning, and these are people of a completely different nature. In order to take up a pen, one must experience shame in oneself, give up something, reconcile oneself, bypass something most necessary for everyone and, holding grief, start one’s path from there, as if nothing had happened to oneself.
October 10, 1934
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The curse of life is not only in the fact that there are people who do evil, but in the fact that people frightened by them have prepared for evil, have become very suspicious and are no longer able to meet a person who is unfamiliar with trust.
March 14, 1937
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Love for the enemy and for the neighbor in general, and not only love, but simply attention to the daily, is achieved only by moving away from him and then returning. Travel is valuable not so much because it enriches a person with new knowledge, but because it opens one’s eyes to what is close.
July 10, 1935
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There is a journey to such a distant country, returning from where people can understand love for their neighbor and even for the enemy – only you have to go very far: I have not been there.
July 10, 1935
8
The most dangerous hunting of wild animals is only the amusement of children of old age. The only beast that is dangerous to everyone, which is not hunted and is only involuntarily found, is the beast that lives? in a person. Many people, without knowing it themselves, live only in fear of this beast, hatred for it, contempt, but even more, at every opportunity, turn into the same beast themselves.
July 22, 1935
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The world is on fire and unheard of grief. Looking from the outside at life, now everyone simply sees with his eyes its meaninglessness. And from the inside, everyone hopes for something for himself …
October 4, 1940
10
Dostoevsky continues to be the only one to describe demons.
January 28, 1937
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A characteristic feature of the Russian people: a very quick, frivolous complacency.
August 3, 1941
12
So gross! and ask: “What would you like?” And you clearly see that both there, in a good past, and now, in prosperous states, there was, and is, and always will be prosperity for a certain duration of stability of a person walking along a tightrope; that – always, everywhere and everywhere this moment of stability is colored by fairy tales, and these fairy tales, in essence, are reality, and not that miserable state of equilibrium. So it’s useful for people sometimes to look at the rope that they have to walk on, this look at their feet, unless you fall off, calls for the creation of a new, more fascinating tale.
December 27, 1937
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Freedom is created by the whole society, but it cannot be asked from the master of the state. Asking for freedom is like asking the owner to remove the lock from his pantry, with doors facing the street. You have the freedom to write a book, and another will climb into the pantry …
June 15, 1937
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Slavery is not that one person forces another to work and even sends to death. Slavery then, if one mindlessly obeys the will of another.
September 7, 1937
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I, of course, ultimately believe in myself, who will not humiliate himself and emerge unscathed from any humiliation. After all, yes! But I have a constant fear of humiliation, and this weakens my strength and suppresses my possibilities: it always seems to me that what I have done is insignificant and under happy conditions I could do a thousand times more.
April 2, 1938
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There is a backlash between the individual and society, when both the individual can cause misfortune to society, and society can destroy the individual: and here is the whole game worth a lifetime.
June 1, 1938
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All the true relationships of people to each other consist in the fact that one person discovers a personality in another and thereby raises him and, even sometimes, one might say, resurrects him. Thus, for example, the reader discovers the writer, and this is the whole culture of mankind: culture as a matter of connection.
May 5, 1944
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I suffered for several days, remembering my enemies, but a moment of understanding came, and I suddenly forgave them all. And not only that! promised never to get angry again without understanding the other side. In most cases, the “other side” also wants the good, but only for everyone, but we want the good for everyone, that is, the good of the personal, which the “other side” misses.
February 4, 1952
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Something vaguely felt. This is precisely the struggle of our time, that each of us at this time remains and must remain alone, and at the same time, under pressure, a law is being formed for everyone: everyone must be everyone, and everyone must be according to the law, like everyone else.
May 2, 1952
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My task was during all Soviet times to adapt to the new environment and remain myself. This task required a feat, there was a feat, but everything seems to be done very little: it took a lot of effort to master the new.
August 25, 1952
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