Dita Virga

“Kas ir stiprs, salauž stieņus. Kam nav spēka, tas ironizē par stieņiem. Kas ir stiprs, tas iznīcina būri. Kam nav spēka, tas rada būra filozofiju. Jo tikai tā var būrī dzīvot.”
― Alberts Bels, The Cage

“According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“I am the wound and the blade, the torturer and the flayed.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil

“Cheap heroism is always easy, and even to sacrifice life is easy too; because it is only a case of hot blood and an overflow of energy, and there is such a longing for what is beautiful! No, take the deed of heroism that is labourious, obscure, without noise or flourish, slandered, in which there is a great deal of sacrifice and not one grain of glory - in which you, a splendid man, are made to look like a scoundrel before every one, though you might be the most honest man in the world - you try that sort of heroism and you'll soon give it up! While I - have been bearing the burden of that all my life.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit