Book: Prophets and poets. Page 5

ULYSSES is not disbelief or contempt for a person, for sincerity and honesty cannot be immoral. Disbelief and contempt are when they lie. To tell the truth means to believe, to believe in the multidimensionality of man and his ability to overcome and conquer himself. That is what a person does every minute.

Life is primarily the life of the soul. And all the riches of the outside world fade before the elements of imagination and the unbridled passion.

Whoever sins against one commandment sins against all.

There is no border between being and consciousness: a complete unity of ideas and events, perception and imagination, memory and duration, inner speech and words. Consciousness is woven into being, being is woven into consciousness. Time dissolves and disappears. There is no time: everything happens here and now.

Our jewels are within us, not outside. It's easy to see this when you read Joyce.

Run! There is nowhere to run ... However, you can always run away: into yourself. This is the only possible escape that has not yet been learned to prohibit.

Looking around him, what does the tormented soul see around him? Hopelessness, exploitation, meanness, spiritual loneliness, doom. Here they trade in art and faith, here the scoundrels and scum are happy, here life is miserable and musty, people are the living dead.

He knew the pursuit of excellence was not profitable. Ulysses required 10 years of hard work. He trusted only his own taste, trusted only himself, did not betray his views. He invariably refused to soften, smooth, round; for him it meant prostitution for his gift.

For people living in spirit, being does not determine consciousness, but vice versa.

The public is dead. And it can only be revived by exposing the public - this is the highest citizenship. Patriotism is not stooping before the motherland devouring its sons, patriotism is spreading, eye to eye with truth and life.

I doomed myself to a beggarly existence, but I did not drop myself in my own eyes. By hierarchical standards, I'm just a bum. I have already taken up medicine three times, tried to study law, music. In life I experience incredible difficulties, but they do not bother me in the least. I am the enemy of human servility and baseness.

Yes, people are separated from each other by skin, skulls, beliefs, but this is outwardly. Deep down, they are alike! The more, the deeper!

The artist today invites us to accept art as bromine, so that we can see that it is, in essence, a mockery of ourselves.

The night did not begin today - it has always been. The world has not grown decrepit - decrepitude is its eternal state. Decomposition is the original, permanent property of humanity that is not subject to change. In the midst of death, we are in life.