Zhenya

“The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.”
― Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“What am I dying for? he cried back. I'm dying because this world I'm living in isn't worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen