"The Tsar of Love and Techno" Quotes
"The Tsar of Love and Techno" weaves together interconnected stories spanning generations in Russia, exploring the impact of art and history on the lives of its characters.
short stories | 332 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
It isn’t fair to expect one person to bear the burden of whole nations.
The past was a chain of events that led to the present, which would, in turn, become the past for the future.
Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.
The truth of a story is never in the facts, but in the echoes of the story.
The idea of a place that never existed, where nothing could harm them, seemed too good to be true.
History is a failed alibi.
The future is a map with no compass.
We all become our kin’s historians, the ones who pass down the stories that justify who we are.
The line between what is real and what is not is not always distinct.
Every story is a history of the future.
