Darya Silman

“anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister

“War is young men dying and old men talking”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson