Author of quotes: Gaito Gazdanov

There is nothing more boring sometimes than to be right.

All life is clear - I want to say, its movement, its peculiarities; then, at the last minute.

Life, says we have only one, and that is very bad, so what the heck?

I listened to her and was afraid to move, as my slightest movement could hurt her sadness.

- And nothing more? - I asked myself. And life seemed the same: I will live in the light so many years and come to my last minutes and I die. How? Nothing more?

I always unconsciously sought to the unknown, which hoped to find new opportunities and a new country; I thought of contact with the unknown will suddenly be resurrected and manifest in a more pure form all are important, all my knowledge and strength, and the willingness to understand something new; and clearly, thereby to subjugate it.

And as a child I invented their adventures on the pirate ship, which you told me dad, so then I created kings, conquistadors and beauties, forgetting that sometimes beauty was kogotkami, the conquistadors - killers and kings - fools.

Thought it was simple, but more strong and sincere; and that, gentlemen, is a great happiness.

If you stay alive after the end of this massacre, you will read special books a detailed exposition of the heroic defeat of white and shamefully-random victory red - if the book was written by a scholar sympathetic to white, and the heroic victory of the labour army of mercenaries of the bourgeoisie - if the author is on the side of the Reds.

The word "meaning," said Vitaly, - not would be a fiction only if we possessed an accurate knowledge of the fact that when we do so, there will be certainly such, and not different results. If it is not always infallible, even in a primitive, mechanical Sciences, under very specific goals and equally specific terms, how you want it to be true in the field of social relations, the nature of which unclear to us, or in the field of individual psychology, the laws of which is almost unknown to us? It makes no sense.

Every, or almost every, the quality, driven to the last degree, is no longer considered as ordinary property rights and acquires the power of attraction of exclusivity.

We all tend to make the same mistake. This error, which you indirectly mentioned, is to stay within those concepts, which we operate, as if not life creates concepts, and concepts create life.

In the conditions of modern civilization inevitably produces the average type of people who do not have a pronounced personality, which therefore closed the path to fame and who always remain in their modest field - workers, employees, small businessmen. The difference in their origin, genetic makeup, their personal characteristics gradually erased the lives they lead and in which has virtually no ability to stand out. By itself, this incentive extension in their existence, constantly dying, and as a result in modern society is formed exactly the type the average person, which is so often referred to and which is equally alien and incomprehensible to both the heroism and crime, and emotional generosity, and extreme emotional low. The modern world is characterized by a growing number of such people, social animals, if to use the terminology of Aristotle.

Happiness is primarily a feeling, or at least something very personal and not passed to others. Now show me the person which you could feel happy.