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Top 20 Sergei Dovlatov Quotes (2025 Update)

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.”

1. “Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “There’s a reason every book, even one that isn’t very serious, is shaped like a suitcase.”

2. “There’s a reason every book, even one that isn’t very serious, is shaped like a suitcase.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “Let’s assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?”

3. “Let’s assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “If people are rude in Moscow, at least it’s in Russian.”

4. “If people are rude in Moscow, at least it’s in Russian.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “You can divide the world into two kinds of people: those who ask, and those who answer. Those who pose questions, and those who frown in irritation in response.”

5. “You can divide the world into two kinds of people: those who ask, and those who answer. Those who pose questions, and those who frown in irritation in response.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “Stop thinking. I’ve stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won’t want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.”

6. “Stop thinking. I’ve stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won’t want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “Looking around, do you see ruins? That was to be expected. He who lives in the world of words does not get along with things.”

7. “Looking around, do you see ruins? That was to be expected. He who lives in the world of words does not get along with things.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.”

8. “We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “Don’t think love has sizes. It either is or isn’t.”

9. “Don’t think love has sizes. It either is or isn’t.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “We didn’t raise our daughter, we merely loved her.”

10. “We didn’t raise our daughter, we merely loved her.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It’s interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.”

11. “If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It’s interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “No point in arguing. But of course I argued.”

12. “No point in arguing. But of course I argued.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “I looked at the empty suitcase. On the bottom was Karl Marx. On the lid was Brodsky. And between them, my lost, precious, only life.”

13. “I looked at the empty suitcase. On the bottom was Karl Marx. On the lid was Brodsky. And between them, my lost, precious, only life.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.”

14. “Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “Leger died a Communist, having fallen once and for all for the greatest charlatanism of all times. It may be that, like many artists, he was stupid.”

15. “Leger died a Communist, having fallen once and for all for the greatest charlatanism of all times. It may be that, like many artists, he was stupid.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “The world was horrible. But life continued. What is more, life’s usual proportions stayed the same. The ratio of good and evil, grief and happiness, remained unchanged.”

16. “The world was horrible. But life continued. What is more, life’s usual proportions stayed the same. The ratio of good and evil, grief and happiness, remained unchanged.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “I had three long conversations with Marusya over a cup of coffee. She told me her whole rather silly story. To some degree we became friends. I like people like that – doomed, dying, helpless, and brazen. I always say, if you’re in trouble, you’re not sinning.”

17. “I had three long conversations with Marusya over a cup of coffee. She told me her whole rather silly story. To some degree we became friends. I like people like that – doomed, dying, helpless, and brazen. I always say, if you’re in trouble, you’re not sinning.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “The university campus was in the old part of town. The combination of water and stone creates a special, majestic atmosphere there. It’s hard to be a sluggard under those circumstances, but I managed.”

18. “The university campus was in the old part of town. The combination of water and stone creates a special, majestic atmosphere there. It’s hard to be a sluggard under those circumstances, but I managed.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “I decided to “find myself” in monumental sculpture. Alas, monumental sculpture is a very conservative genre. The cause is the monumentality itself. You can secretly write novels and symphonies. You can secretly experiment on canvas. But just try to hide a twelve-foot-high sculpture!”

19. “I decided to “find myself” in monumental sculpture. Alas, monumental sculpture is a very conservative genre. The cause is the monumentality itself. You can secretly write novels and symphonies. You can secretly experiment on canvas. But just try to hide a twelve-foot-high sculpture!”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “The world in which I found myself was horrifying. In that world, people fought with sharpened rasp files, ate dogs, covered their faces with tattoos and sodomized goats. In that world, people killed for a package of tea.”

20. “The world in which I found myself was horrifying. In that world, people fought with sharpened rasp files, ate dogs, covered their faces with tattoos and sodomized goats. In that world, people killed for a package of tea.”

— Sergei Dovlatov

Sergei Dovlatov Quote: “As a schoolboy I liked to draw the leaders of the world proletariat – especially Marx. Just start smearing an ordinary splotch of ink around and you’ve already got a resemblance...”

21. “As a schoolboy I liked to draw the leaders of the world proletariat – especially Marx. Just start smearing an ordinary splotch of ink around and you’ve already got a resemblance...”

— Sergei Dovlatov

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