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Victor Pelevin
“Моя единственная свобода в том, чтобы видеть, какой из злых духов захватил и ведет мою душу. А еще есть свобода этого не видеть, вот и все «to be or not to be».”
Виктор Пелевин, Т

“Кидание понтов, бессмысленных и беспощадных - обычная российская болезнь,.. Это вызвано не пошлостью нашего национального характера, а сочетанием европейской утонченности и азиатского бесправия, в котором самая суть нашей жизни. Кидая понты, русский житель вовсе не хочет показать, что он лучше тех, перед кем выплясывает. Наоборот. Он кричит - «смотрите, я такой же как вы, я тоже достоин счастья, я не хочу, чтобы вы презирали меня за то, что жизнь была со мной так жестока!» Понять это по-настоящему может лишь сострадание”
Pelevin Empire V

Mikhail Bulgakov
“The rule apparently is – once a social revolution takes place there’s
no need to stoke the boiler. But I ask you: why, when this whole business started, should everybody suddenly start clumping up and down the marble staircase in dirty galoshes and felt boots? Why must we now keep our galoshes under lock and key? And put a soldier on guard over them to prevent them from being stolen? Why has the carpet been removed from the front staircase? Did Marx forbid people to keep their staircases carpeted? Did Karl Marx say anywhere
that the front door of No. 2 Kalabukhov House in Prechistenka Street must be boarded up so that people have to go round and come in by the back door? What good does it do anybody? Why can’t the proletarians leave their galoshes downstairs instead of dirtying the staircase?’
‘But the proletarians don’t have any galoshes, Philip Philipovich,’ stammered the doctor.”
Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

Rainer Maria Rilke
“Who speaks of victory? To endure is all.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

Yukio Mishima
“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed. You may ask what good it does us. Let's put it this way — human beings possess the weapon of knowledge in order to make life bearable. For animals such things aren't necessary. Animals don't need knowledge or anything of the sort to make life bearable. But human beings do need something, and with knowledge they can make the very intolerableness of life a weapon, though at the same time that intolerableness is not reduced in the slightest. That's all there is to it.”
Yukio Mishima The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1959).

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