Jack

“I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

“They cannot understand as yet that we are not fighting a political party but a sect of murderers of all contemporary spiritual culture.”
― Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

“Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.”
― Anton Chekhov