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“Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
“Ceux qui arriveront à vaincre tous ces obstacles, et à triompher de l’hostilité d’un milieu opposé à toute spiritualité, seront sans doute peu nombreux ; mais, encore une fois, ce n’est pas le nombre qui importe, car nous sommes ici dans un domaine dont les lois sont tout autres que celles de la matière. Il n’y a donc pas lieu de désespérer ; et, n’y eût-il même aucun espoir d’aboutir à un résultat sensible avant que le monde moderne ne sombre dans quelque catastrophe, ce ne serait pas encore une raison valable pour ne pas entreprendre une œuvre dont la portée réelle s’étend bien au-delà de l’époque actuelle. Ceux qui seraient tentés de céder au découragement doivent penser que rien de ce qui est accompli dans cet ordre ne peut jamais être perdu, que le désordre, l’erreur et l’obscurité ne peuvent l’emporter qu’en apparence et d’une façon toute momentanée, que tous les déséquilibres partiels et transitoires doivent nécessairement concourir au grand équilibre total, et que rien ne saurait prévaloir finalement contre la puissance de la vérité ; leur devise doit être celle qu’avaient adoptée autrefois certaines organisations initiatiques de l’Occident : Vincit omnia Veritas.”
― The Crisis of the Modern World
― The Crisis of the Modern World
“Men have forgotten God"
Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.”
―
Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.”
―
“What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“Art isn't a matter of 'what' but of 'how'.”
― One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
― One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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