Old Age Is God's Ignorance
2 hrs. 21 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Faina Ranevskaya
Author
Faina Ranevskaya
Narrator
Marianna Shultz
Narrator
Marianna Shultz
Description
Faina Georgievna (Grigorievna) Ranevskaya (1896–1984) was a Soviet stage and film actress, People’s Artist of the USSR (1961), a three-time laureate of the Stalin Prize (1949, 1951, 1951).
…Everyone who loved me didn’t like me. And the one I loved didn’t love me back. Who would know my loneliness… Curse that very talent that made me unhappy. My appearance ruined my personal life.
…Lonely. Mortal longing. I’m eighty-one years old. I’m sitting in Moscow. Summer. I can’t abandon my dog. They rented me a small house outside the city, with a “toilet.” In my years there can be only one lover—a home closet.
…Old age is simply filthy. I think it’s God’s ignorance, when he allows you to live long enough to become old. Lord, everyone is gone, and I’m still alive…
…Everyone who loved me didn’t like me. And the one I loved didn’t love me back. Who would know my loneliness… Curse that very talent that made me unhappy. My appearance ruined my personal life.
…Lonely. Mortal longing. I’m eighty-one years old. I’m sitting in Moscow. Summer. I can’t abandon my dog. They rented me a small house outside the city, with a “toilet.” In my years there can be only one lover—a home closet.
…Old age is simply filthy. I think it’s God’s ignorance, when he allows you to live long enough to become old. Lord, everyone is gone, and I’m still alive…
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