Ryu Petru

“Take fireflies for example. Try to imagine their beauty, the evanescent beauty of their lives, which don't even last a week.

Female fireflies flash their lights only to have intercourse with the males; males twinkle just to have intercourse with the females. And once their mating has finished, they die. In short, their reproductive instinct is the single, absolute reason for fireflies to live. In that simple instinct and their simple world, no kind of sadness can intervene. This is precisely why fireflies are so fleetingly beautiful.”
― Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Welcome to the N.H.K.

“When a boy… discovers that he is more given into introspection and consciousness of self than other boys his age, he easily falls into the error of believing it is because he is more mature than they. This was certainly a mistake in my case. Rather, it was because the other boys had no such need of understanding themselves as I had: they could be their natural selves, whereas I was to play a part, a fact that would require considerable understanding and study. So it was not my maturity but my sense of uneasiness, my uncertainty that was forcing me to gain control over my consciousness. Because such consciousness was simply a steppingstone to aberration and my present thinking was nothing but uncertain and haphazard guesswork.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“Nu dor nici luptele pierdute,
Nici rănile din piept nu dor
Cum dor acele brațe slute
Care să lupte nu mai vor.

Cât inima în piept îți cântă
Ce-nseamnă-n luptă-un braț răpus?
Ce-ți pasă-n colb de-o spadă frântă
Când te ridici cu-n steag, mai sus?

Înfrânt nu ești atunci când sângeri,
Nici ochii când în lacrimi ți-s.
Adevăratele înfrângeri,
Sunt renunțările la vis.”
― Radu Gyr

“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes”
― Adolf Hitler