Author of quotes: Svetlana Surganova

I suddenly noticed that people for me turn into "pictures from an exhibition", characters, images. More often than not, I just watch them. Contemplation is the least traumatic path in relationships.

Sometimes you do not fully understand the reason for your gloomy mood. Probably, the total effect of what is happening around - in the country, in society, in the world, on the planet - works. The nervous system does not cope, and here it is very important not to "fly off the coils".

Frankly, I am very receptive to the word. The word for me is the beginning, it is the end of everything. Speech turns are like a litmus test that works flawlessly. I can, by the expression that a person used, determine whether he is mine or not. It doesn't matter to me what a person wears, it matters to me what he "carries". Back in school, I was instilled with the idea that the level of culture directly depends on the culture of speech. This is a difficult philosophical question, what comes first - a word or a thought. There is a very fine line here, but it is not for nothing that it is said: "In the beginning there was the Word ..." And the culture of speech, as Joseph Brodsky correctly noted, is what distinguishes people from the animal world. Thinking about WHAT we say and HOW will in many ways change our behavior and actions.

The modern world is brutal and phallocentric. Whether you want it or not, he engages you and crushes you under him.

Do not pull the strings too tight. It will hurt you when one of them breaks loose, one of them hits you in the face ...

The bird is a swift gesture of space.

The most valuable thing that each of us has is individuality. The maximum that a person can acquire in his life is himself. The best version of myself. What is the point of playing someone else's role, unquestioningly trusting the laws invented long before you by society, with which, by and large, you have little in common? ..

So who am I? Philosopher or bore?

Let's be reasonable. If the shell is "tight", it is not necessary to immediately tear it into "1000 little bears". It upsets me that for renewal, humanity still needs to create acute conflicts, and then resolve them with colossal losses.

Inner lightness, intelligence, lively mind, the ability to improvise in any situations, resourcefulness, kindness, generosity - these are the markers of my admiration for people.

And life is such a thing: now the sun, now it is cloudy and rain, quarrels, meetings, partings, sadness, hope and love.

thawed music.

Children is a separate space, full of improvisations. Perhaps all this to master it.

Life, like running through a minefield,
and here every fugitive strategist and hero.