Book: Prophets and poets

What was, will be more than once.

We are mots, said Alabanda, - we kill time in frenzy.

Prometheus brought people not only fire, but also the fire of the Inquisition, and gunpowder, and conflagration, and an atomic bomb. We praise our Prometheus! And it would be absurd not to praise the one who accepted eternal pain for our sake.

Timelessness frightens us in it. Space and historicity were cramped for him, he thought in terms of eternity, his paradoxical fantasy contained the reality of all times, especially the coming time.

The system is often strong in its weakness, persistent omnipresence, disorganized order - in that it is a system.

Dostoevsky's heroes were still acutely aware of their humiliation and insult. We no longer feel or experience anything.

The Chinese wall is not just the senselessness and incompleteness of defense against external enemies, not a standard of strength, but - and this is the main thing! - a symbol of weakness, a bad need for a bad self-affirmation in one's own people.

People are fundamentally not united, for those who are supposed to build the Great Walls and the towers of Babel are concerned not with solidarity, but with bread. They are not united because they are submissive from birth.

You have your homeland, and therefore you can abandon it, and this is probably the best thing that can be done with your homeland, especially because what cannot be denied in it is not denied.

The humiliated and insulted were there before, but unlike the former ones, they no longer feel like that.

The first writer of the absurd, he showed that the prose of the absurd is the best way to depict the absurd world in which we live.

In general, we are all great lovers of freedom, only now we are afraid of it. Perestroika is confusion. This feeling is familiar to all slaves and slaves, who thought that they suddenly found freedom ...

Man is genetically condemned to adapt to the society that gave birth to him, whatever it was. At any cost - to adapt, adapt, fit in, there is no other way to survive.

Suffering is a positive element of this world, and moreover, it is the only connection between this world and the positive.