Dita Virga

“Mēs visi esam vienas sabiedrības bērni, kā rieksti vienā lazdā. Dažos ielien smecernieks, izgrauž serdi, paliek tukšums, dažus notrauc vēji pirms laika, dažus apēd vāveres un meža putni, un tikai daži auglīgā augsnē dzen jaunas atvases dzīvībai. Mēs visi esam tik vienādi, bet savā būtībā tik dažādi.”
― Alberts Bels, The Cage

“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

“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes — die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Man of the Crowd

“Ko gan es atdotu, lai ar pasaules lielāko muļķi varētu patērzēt kaut piecas minūtes! Cilvēks pats par sevi nav nekas, tikai saskarē ar sabiedrību viņš kļūst cilvēks. [..] Esmu pats savs vergs, esmu pats savs īpašnieks. Esmu pats savs tiesnesis, pats savs bende. Es varu glābties vārdu spēlēs, pats savs cirvis, savs bluķis, bet es nevaru būt pats bez sabiedrības.”
― Alberts Bels, The Cage