Stevann

“Мы знаем грядущему цену
И знаем, что юность права,
Не как молодая трава,
Что старой приходит на смену,
Чтоб так же отжить до зимы”
― Alexander Tvardovsky, Стихотворения. Поэмы

“Man is born not to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out where the problem begins, and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“The more devoted a woman shows herself, the sooner the man sobers down and becomes domineering. The more cruelly she treats him and the more faithless she is, the worse she uses him, the more wantonly she plays with him, the less pity she shows him, by so much the more will she increase his desire, be loved, worshipped by him.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus In Furs

“Following this formula, John Jacob Astor, who arrived in America the classic penniless immigrant in 1792, rose to become the “landlord of New York” and the richest man in America by the time he died in 1848.”
― John Tauranac, The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark