In words, you are a simple lion. “In words, you are a toast lion ...

On quotes from the diaries of Lev Nikolayevich, I decided to make a post from the ones I liked the most. I hope that for many this writer, thinker and philosopher, will open up from an unexpected side.

Warning: many letters! It's Tolstoy!

Epigraph:
"1884, March 26. In the evening I came across a girl of 15 years old, drunk, dissolute. And I did not know what to do."
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy. complete collection essays in 90 volumes. Volume 49. Diaries and notebooks 1884.

About women:
“1890, February 3rd. Went to Tsarevo. ... drunken women laughed at me and hit me with a whip.
“1887, November 25th. If Christ came and gave the gospel for printing, the ladies would try to get his autographs, and nothing more.
“1889, April 20th. ... went to Nelidova. A disgusting lady, tight-fitting, tight-fitting, fat, as if naked. Writer. He behaved decently. Gone".
“1885, April 5th. I also thought: about Usov, about the professors: why are they so smart and sometimes good people, so stupid and bad live? From the power of women on them. They give themselves over to the flow of life because their wives or mistresses want it. Everything is decided at night."
"1851, June 2. And now I think with pleasure that I have ordered a saddle, which I will ride in Cherkessk, and how I will drag myself behind the Cossacks, and come to despair that my left mustache is worse right, and I straighten it in front of the mirror for two hours.
"1901, January 19. A man must rise to the chastity of a woman, and not a woman, as is happening now, descend to the promiscuity of a man."

About writers:
“1889, March 17th. Read Chekhov. It's not good enough."
“1889, January 14th. Pathetic Fet with his anniversary. It's horrible! A child, but stupid and evil.
"1861, June 25. A wonderful quarrel with Turgenev; the final one - he is a perfect scoundrel, but I think that in time I will not be able to stand it and forgive him."
"1857, September 8. I read the received letters of Gogol. He was just a rubbish person. Terrible rubbish."
"1856, June 7. I read Pushkin's parts 2 and 3; "Gypsies" are charming, like the first time, the rest of the poems, with the exception of "Onegin", are terrible rubbish."
"1852, September 30. Received a letter from Nekrasov - praise, but not money."
"1906, September 30. I read Goethe and see everything bad influence this insignificant, bourgeois-egoistic gifted person on the generation that I found - especially poor Turgenev with his admiration for Faust (a completely bad work).

About the agenda:

“1890, July 4th. Got up late. I drink extra koumiss.
“1889, February 28th. I got up early, cleaned the room, wrote it down, I go to drink coffee. I ate coffee."
“1889, November 14th. I went to work and hurt my eye"
“1889, February 11th. I tried to write, it didn't work. Went to walk in a blizzard.
“1889, December 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. In the morning I wanted to write, but not very much, and therefore I sewed boots.
“1888, December 5th. I slept badly."
“1884, September 3rd. Went for mushrooms. Yearned. Shil.
"1884, March 9. Everyone works, except me."
"1862, September 9. I did not sleep until 3 o'clock. Like a 16-year-old boy, he dreamed and suffered."
"1858, September 17. Wandering around in the morning with longing in my soul."
"1854, January 9. 1) I got up late. 2) I got excited, beat Alyoshka. 3) I was lazy. 4) I was disorderly. 5) I was sad."
"1855, January 28. I played shtoss for two days and two nights. The result is understandable - the loss of everything - the Yasnaya Polyana house. It seems there is nothing to write - I am so disgusted with myself that I would like to forget about my existence."
"1854, August 13. Played around all evening."
"1853, November 30. I thought a lot, but did nothing."
"1852, March 31. I woke up at 6 o'clock, woke everyone up; but from laziness I did not get up and slept until 9."
"1852, March 20. Damn laziness! What a nice person I would be if she didn't bother me."
"1904, August 27. Upset by overeating. Ashamed."

Philosophical:
“1890, June 25th. People think they are busy important things they are only busy eating.”
“1890, June 24th. Guests are the scourge of our lives.”
“1890, May 29. I thought one thing: we eat sauces, meat, sugar, sweets - we overeat, and it seems nothing to us. It doesn't even cross my mind that it's bad. But catarrh of the stomach is a general disease of our life. Is not the same sweet aesthetic food - poems, novels, sonatas, operas, romances, paintings, statues. The same catarrh of the brain.
“1890, September 3rd. Today I thought: I am angry at the moral stupidity of children except for Masha. But who are they? My children, my work from all sides, from the carnal and spiritual. I made them what they are. These are my sins - always in front of me [...] I often said to myself: if not for my wife, children, I would live a holy life.
“1890, February 11th. Hair turns gray - melancholy.
“1889, April 30th. When I approached the troops, priests with images went at me. In order not to take off my hats, I went away from them. And I was ashamed to run away, but I was shy and ashamed to go to them.
“1889, March 11th. Art deals with facts, science with external laws. Art says: sun, light, heat, life; science says: the sun is 111 times more land. I'm going to have lunch."
"1881. The goal is one - happiness, one's own and family - knowing that happiness is in being content with little and doing good to others."
"1853, October 31. It's strange that we all hide that one of the main springs of our life is money. As if it's a shame. Take novels, biographies, stories: everywhere they try to get around money issues, while in them the main interest (if not the main, but the most constant) of life and the character of a person is best expressed.
"1853, July 8. Yes, my main misfortune is my big mind."
"1851, June 12. I spent the morning quite well, a little lazy, lied, but without sin."
"1900, October 9. I began to remember all my nasty things. I vividly remembered everything, or at least a lot, and was horrified [...] after all, I'm disgusting vermin."
"1897, December 21. Yesterday I received an anonymous letter with a threat of murder if I do not correct myself by 1898. The term is given only until 1898. Both terrible and good."

On politics and religion:
“1889, April 30th. Thought: here are the seven counts of the indictment against the government: 1) Church, deception, superstition, waste. 2) Army, debauchery, cruelty, spending. 3) Punishment, corruption, cruelty, infection. 4) Land ownership is large, the hatred of the poor of the city. 5) Factories are killing life. 6) Drunkenness. 7) Prostitution.
“1889, March 27th. The fact is that people sell their lives cheaply, not at cost. Work fifteen hours. And he comes out from behind the machine - his eyes are clouded, like crazy; and that's every day."
"1881, October 5. [Moscow]. Moving to Moscow [...] Stink, stones, luxury, poverty. Debauchery. The villains who robbed the people gathered, recruited soldiers, judges to protect their orgy, and feast. More people there is nothing to do but, taking advantage of the passions of these people, to lure back the loot from them.
"The year is 1881. And all religions are superstitions, the very evil that hinders the development of mankind most of all."

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters that he plans to fulfill the OPEC 100+ quota in the coming month. It seems to be positive news, which suggests that Russia, although not part of the OPEC cartel, nevertheless seeks to maintain the macroeconomic situation associated with oil production and agreements to reduce it. Many of you remember how last year Novak went to meetings of countries “near” OPEC, the news was full of headlines that Russia was also cutting production and Novak was some kind of indicator of Russia’s intentions to cooperate with oil-producing countries. In fact, over the past 2 months, the Russian Federation has repeatedly and significantly exceeded the production quota. The news that appeared on May 7 in the media only indicates that the Russian Federation, represented by the Minister of Energy, is slowly beginning to justify itself for those numbers that do not meet its early promises. It seemed, well, to hell with him, Novak personally promised nothing to me, and the same to you. Nevertheless, the news that came out is very interesting, and together with the other, it gives a forecast that will directly affect the personal finances of every Russian in the long run until the end of the year.

The second piece of news, which is absolutely worth paying attention to, is the news about the intentions of the Ministry of Finance to buy foreign currency again in May. If you remember, the Ministry of Finance has been buying foreign currency since December 2017. AT last month Last year, the Ministry of Finance bought foreign currency for 203 billion rubles, in January for 257 billion rubles, in March the Ministry of Finance purchased foreign currency for 192 billion rubles, in April this figure was already 240 billion rubles, and this month the volume of purchases will be a record. From May 10 to June 6, the Ministry of Finance will purchase currencies for more than 322 billion rubles!

These two pieces of news speak of a common, I would even say everyday thing - the Russian authorities are preparing for a rise in the price of the dollar against the Russian ruble. This will happen for reasons that we have discussed more than once in previous analytical reviews, but they will now be supplemented by US sanctions against Iran. So far, forecasts that the United States will still impose new sanctions against Iran, which will relate to oil supplies, are approximately 80%. Many analysts are inclined to believe that Iran will not be able to avoid repeating the restriction of oil supplies. Many countries, including members of the OPEC cartel, as well as those that are not part of it (such as Russia), are starting to increase production for one simple reason, then in order to sell this oil, since one large (even the largest) oil supplier the world will be smaller. At the same time, oil production in Venezuela, which is suffering due to its domestic economic problems, has been steadily declining.

Of course, such an external economic situation is at hand Russian economy. The Russian authorities will now really be able to capitalize on the growth in the value of the currency against the ruble, as well as the growth in the cost of oil, and, perhaps, even on the excess of demand over supply in the oil market, but also, if they have necessary knowledge(in some places intelligence) they will be able to earn on the carry trade. So far, the key rate on the Russian ruble is 7.25%. This figure is much higher than in many economically developed countries. In connection with these, you can also play for the fall of the Russian ruble on the stock exchange, which will certainly be done by foreign investors not burdened with sanctions. But also, it can be done by investors who want to make money on it, which is what needs to be done.

It is sad that the Russian economy can only be helped at the expense of the misfortune of third parties (third countries). It is sad that, most likely, the profit, which will potentially be calculated in "yards" of dollars, most likely will not settle where we would like. But this is absolutely not our final task, which we should discuss. Our goal is to make a profit. Forecasts given in previous analytical reviews on the medium-term growth of currencies against the ruble, on the decline of leading Russian securities and stock indices remain valid.

I wish you wealth
ramy

You can write a thousand and one books about morality, ethics, love, friendship, honor, get world fame and honor, but in the soul quietly hate everyone and actually live, not coordinating their actions and feelings with the thoughts from their own books, that is, to be the greatest hypocrite, but still recognition, money. And you can be poorly educated, poor and rude, but love people, help them, give them good and just sow the reasonable, kind, eternal. True, they will rank you among the so-called "cattle" (Russia is very generous with this word), because you are without a crust, rude, poor, and even without an "active citizenship" with his own opinion. And, you know, if an ultimatum was put before me: "Who should I be? First or second?", I would choose the second. I'd rather be considered a "cattle" than I'll be an arrogant arrogant. This is me to the fact that in life all the best things are usually done by the most simple people, which many of our new "intelligentsia" like to mistake for beings of a lower order. Happy Unity Day, Russia.

Reviews

Just do not understand why cattle-a simple, hard-working people?

The redneck is just that stinking intelligentsia, all these prostitute shits, who, according to their position, are obliged to make Russia Great, but they CANNOT do this, due to natural dementia.

The daily audience of the Proza.ru portal is about 100 thousand visitors, who total amount view more than half a million pages according to the traffic counter, which is located to the right of this text. Each column contains two numbers: the number of views and the number of visitors.

Yes, even no one was going to fulfill their own election promises, although it would seem ...

In his epic failure, Mr. Gudkov blames the Moscow City Hall, they say, she took all the power into her hands. But was it really different a year ago, when he promised to move mountains? It seems that just his sixes did not cope with the task.

And who is there to "manage"? Lucy Stein, known only for hanging plaster copies of her breasts on demolished houses or fighting with rapper Timati over his Black Star Burger cafe. And yes, even with their crazy posts in social networks written under the influence of tranquilizers. In addition, our Lucy is suspected of adultery with Gudkov himself, a married man, for a second.

The second municipal deputy, who distinguished himself by his blatant uselessness, was Alexei Navalny's friend Ilya Yashin. All he succeeded in was to refuse, under some idiotic pretext, to erect a monument to the famous Russian saints Peter and Fevronia of Murom. And for this, apparently, he wrote himself a bonus of 100% for " Active participation in the performance of certain powers of the city of Moscow. "He was even removed from the leadership of the draft board - this is a bastard, you see, he did not find time to go to training meetings and did not appear to receive an assignment for drafting. Apparently he was busy.

The next municipality of the "Gudkovo formation" is the brawler Mitrokhin, known only for the fact that he interfered in every possible way with the Moscow renovation program.

Or take the Moscow State University teacher Yulia Galyamina, who not only encourages her students to participate in unauthorized protests, but also actively crawls under the batons of the riot police herself. True, she was rewarded for this, now Mikhail Khodorkovsky is actively sponsoring her liberal initiatives.
In general, it is already clear on what personnel the political program of Dmitry Gudkov is based. It is also clear that active municipal activity was not initially included in the priorities of our hero. All he needed was to push his sixes into power so that they would then provide him with a municipal threshold in the mayoral elections. In the chair of the mayor at any cost - this is the installation of Gudkov. But whether it will be possible to implement it is a big question.

After all, even the aforementioned municipal project proved to be stillborn. What will happen to the real major projects and tasks, if our hero suddenly achieves his goal? Will he screw them up too? Well, no thanks. In addition, everyone remembers the story of bribes, in which Dmitry Gudkov got dirty in 2013, which is why he flew out of A Just Russia together with his parent.

And about " political instability"This deputy is also remembered: Gudkov could not decide on his preferences for a long time, he kept rushing about from party to party, from faction to faction.

And about how he went to the USA for a conference " New Approach or the status quo? Relations between the US, the EU and Russia against the backdrop of Putin's repressions”, where he became adept at criticizing the Russian authorities.

With so many “flights”, there is no need to seriously apply for the chair of the mayor of Moscow. This comrade is distinguished neither by outstanding services to society, nor by a stable political position, nor by patriotism, but he does not hold adventurism and scandalousness. So is it necessary to vote for such a candidate? Not at all.

Daughter, the light of my eyes Dashutka, after she climbed into my post with her graduation photos, then studied my entire friend feed, was honored to read my posts and delivered a verdict: “Better write a book than write in LiveJournal.”

To my objections:
I have nothing to say to the city and the world,
- and they pay mere pennies!
reasonably noticed that money is not superfluous (well, yes, well, yes, I guess: the baby obviously set out to change the model of the phone), after which she recited a rhyme from which I ... er ... somewhat, how to put it mildly ... frustrated, let's say:

In words, you are Leo Tostoy,
But in fact x * d simple!

The primary source, the child, of course, did not know, which did not prevent me from assessing this couplet quite adequately, since the rhyme very clearly characterizes what most of us in LiveJournal are doing. And here, almost at the same time, I finally finished reading (yes, I just tormented, with all my love for Viktor Olegovich) the novel “T”. And what do you think I read on page 326?!

“After the next turn, chosen with the same somnambulistic ease, doubts disappeared: a dazzling white and, apparently, quite recently applied graffiti on the wall floated towards:
DO YOU THINK YOU ARE LEO TOLSTOY
FUCKING IS SIMPLE
T. sighed.

I remind you: this is a quote, and not I forgot to turn off Caps Lock.
And you say books come into your hands by chance. Yes, never by accident!

And, by the way, I would advise this novel by Pelevin and strongly for reading to anyone who suddenly considers himself a writer. It is very well written about the place and perception of oneself in the space "author - character - reader". And the rest of the reading will not pass without benefit.

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A few more quotes.
“... The white willows that stood along the road reminded him of a procession of giants who slowly wandered from one eternity to another, waving many thin silvery hands.<…>The giants were ancient, good-natured, and blind; their small meaningful gestures were addressed to unknown creatures who once understood this language, but have long since died out. But the blind trees did not know what had happened and gesticulated as diligently as many millions of years ago.

“The sky above the city was covered with a gray veil with rare gaps of blue. The sun came out sometimes. With a little effort, one could see the world differently - with rare blue clouds on gray skies».

“Well, we just started the project, and then everything was on a grand scale and swayed. The crisis has begun.
— What crisis?
- That's the thing, it's not clear. This time they didn't even explain. Previously, in such cases, at least world war arranged out of respect for the public. And now, no back-dancing at all. The aliens did not invade, the asteroid did not fall. Just a female television announcer in a blue jacket announced in a low voice that with tomorrow everything will be bad. And not a single channel dared to object.

“Yeah,” said Knopf. - Understandably. These minds invent us with artistic purpose?
- Yes, - answered T. - Although at the same time they strongly doubt the artistic value of their product. As I understand it, their goal is much closer to commercial ranching than to art."