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Часть I, Глава 7
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing. It is like saying that because a man can only walk about on two legs, therefore he never walks about except to buy shoes and stockings. Man cannot live without the two props of food and drink, which support him like two legs; but to suggest that they have been the motives of all his movements in history is like saying that the goal of all his military marches or religious pilgrimages must have been the Golden Leg of Miss Kilmansegg or the ideal and perfect leg of Sir Willoughby Patterne. But it is such movements that make up the story of mankind and without them there would practically be no story at all. Cows may be purely economic, in the sense that we cannot see that they do much beyond grazing and seeking better grazing grounds; and that is why a history of cows in twelve volumes would not be very lively reading.
Вечный Человек (1925)

Из писем Лили Брик В.В. Маяковскому в Москву (Петроград, апрель 1918)

О классическом балете

E intanto il tempo se ne va e non ti senti più bambina. Si cresce in fretta alla tua età non me ne sono accorto prima. E intanto il tempo se ne va tra i sogni e le preoccupazioni. Le calze a rete han preso già il posto dei calzettoni.
«Il tempo se ne va», № 4
Un po’ artista un po’ no

«Пятеро» (Лика), 1936
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