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Welcome! Vitajte!
The structure of this website
is already visible but the contents are scant. I plan
to be updating them frequently, though; I suggest that
we keep in touch. The best way never to miss an addition
to Avenarius’
Book of Quotations
is to send a blank email to the address subscribe@avenarius.net;
you'll be then receiving regular email notifications informing
you of additions to the website. You may unsubscribe at
any time by sending a blank email to unsubscribe@avenarius.net.
The site is a lifelong project of mine; the aim is to
assemble the finest (but also some of the worst) quotations
from the books (or even newspapers) that I’ve read.
The quotes may also be words I overheard someone saying
in the street. For the most time, I’ll be including
quotations in original languages: English, German, Russian,
Slovak, Czech... Other languages should follow. Please
make sure that your software displays the special characters
used on Russian, Slovak etc. webpages on this site. The
encoding used for Slovak and Czech pages is ISO-Central
European 8859-2; Russian pages are encoded in Cyrillic
KOI8-R; German pages in ISO-Western European 8859-1.
Most of the quotations assembled on the website will be
commented upon by me. If you’re interested in reading
the comments, click on any of the footnote marks (highlighted
in blue
numbers) interspersed within the text of quotations; separately
from the main text, another window opens for you to view
the editor’s informal on-the-fly notes and analyses.
That way you can easily switch back and forth between
the quotations and the commentary, without having to close
any of the two windows. All footnotes are cross-referenced
(by means of electronic links) back to the main window
of original quotations – so that the reverse mode
of reading is also possible: you may start out by reading
the editor’s commentary, clicking on a link to view
the original quotation to which a particular comment refers.
Enjoy Avenarius’
Book of Quotations.
If you can, find a minute to sign the guestbook
at the bottom of the screen. Or send me a direct e-mail
message to let me know what you think. All suggestions
for improving the site will be appreciated! Don’t
hesitate to voice criticism wherever you think the webmaster
could do better work.
View
the complete list of authors
of quotations.
View the complete list of quoted
works.
Voice your opinion in the Book of Quotations
message board, or sign
the guestbook.
Write an email message to the webmaster.
You're invited to visit my personal
website.
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Avenarius’ Book of Quotations
will include quotations from dozens of authors –
famous or completely unknown, ancient and contemporary,
professional writers and ordinary people. Only one
criterion is used in selecting quotations for the
site: they need to be interesting,worth
reading.
Two of Avenarius’ best loved classic writers
and lifelong idols: Leo
Tolstoy (on the right) with Anton
Chekhov, in a picture taken in 1901. Avenarius’
Book of Quotations
will include excerpts from all works of both writers,
in original Russian along with the webmaster’s
informal on-the-fly commentaries.
Conventions
Within the text of quotations, words
highlighted in italics or bold have
been so highlighted by the editor of this Book
of Quotations.
In contrast, words that are highlighted by being
underlined (yet without appearing in blue
colour, that is: without functioning as electronic
links) were already highlighted in the source text
of the quotation: they were emphasized by the original
author.
An asterisk * within the body of quotations indicates
a word or passage that the editor of this Book
of Quotations considers to be particularly
significant or admirable. Such a portion of text
may or may not be further commented upon in a footnote.
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