Baba Boba

“Self-control!” repeated Tom incredulously. “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that’s the idea you can count me out.… Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“чего же это я плачу, когда у меня есть вино?”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, Diaboliad

“Mephistopheles:
Yet future poets’ verse will stress
The splendour of your bright success,
And inspire fools to foolishness.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part Two

“Here stands a man alone.

Here looms an abyss, call it: No consolation.

Here floats a heaven, call it: No happiness.

Here grows a forest, call it: Scorn and ridicule.

Here flows an ocean, call it: Pathetic.

Here darkness chokes, call it: No love.

And not a soul around to help…”
― Ernst Toller, Hinkemann