The italics are mine
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"Italics are mine" - the most famous book by Nina Berberova (1901-1993), immediately became a world bestseller. Bright, independent, provocative, deeply personal - this autobiography caused a storm of criticism from its "heroes" and remained a unique testimony to the life of the first Russian emigration. Portraits of V. Khodasevich, I. Bunin, M. Gorky, A. Bely, M. Tsvetaeva, Z. Gippius, G. Ivanov, V. Nabokov are written by an absolutely free man - without looking back, without fear, then scathingly and ironically, then reverently and tenderly ...
"I am writing a saga about my life, about myself, in which I am free to do what I want, to reveal secrets and keep them for myself, to talk about myself, to talk about others, not to talk about anything, to stop at any point, to close this notebook... Everything that is written here is written according to two laws, which I recognized and which I follow: the first - reveal yourself to the end, and the second - conceal your life for yourself alone".
"I am writing a saga about my life, about myself, in which I am free to do what I want, to reveal secrets and keep them for myself, to talk about myself, to talk about others, not to talk about anything, to stop at any point, to close this notebook... Everything that is written here is written according to two laws, which I recognized and which I follow: the first - reveal yourself to the end, and the second - conceal your life for yourself alone".
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