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“Ultimul gest pe care poți să-l faci, care mai are un sens în lumea asta bezmetică, este să omori pe cineva sau să te sinucizi. Numai așa mai poți ieși din anonimat, mai poți tulbura ceva în mizeria care ne copleșește!”
― Vitalie Ciobanu, Zilele după Oreste

“Obiectele pe care le aduna, căutându-le la piețe, în locuințe abandonate sau la mica publicitate, nu costau doi bani ca utilitate imediată, dar păstrau demnitatea fostei lor valori, de care nu puteau fi deposedate, cum nu poți șterge din alcătuirea ta de acum memoria a ceea ce te-a marcat, etapă de etapă.”
― Vitalie Ciobanu, Zilele după Oreste

“Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness, and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo...and it's worth fighting for.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is a fine thing when a man who thoroughly understands a subject is unwilling to open his mouth.”
― Yoshida Kenkō