Author of quotes: Alexander Pelevin

Therefore, there will always be a need for people who can draw mammoths, so that those who do not draw can see it - and they also become less scared. Because you can look at a fictitious, non-existent, but as if real. This is the whole miracle.

Drinking alone is a very dangerous undertaking. At first you like it. Relaxes, gives a feeling of permissiveness, smells like drunken freedom of loneliness. First time, second, third. And then it turns out that you spend more on it than you can afford. And you stop controlling yourself. You drink glass after glass without diluting it - ha, I'm a grown man, I'll drink it clean - and you don't notice how you go into a tailspin. How you cut yourself off from the whole world and look at everything through a drunken veil, and some kind of fun happens around, but this is not your fun, someone else's. Everything around is different. And then you are covered with thoughts. And there is no one around who could dispel them. So hang yourself for a short time.

A hundred years ago, believers needed God to explain the inexplicable. For physicists, this God is gravity. When we understand what it is, we ourselves will become gods.

Everything comes alive. Everything speaks. The dead rise from their graves at night, come to the living when they sleep, bend over the bed and whisper dreams to them. You cannot see it. Your eyes are not your eyes. Your ears are not your ears. Your heart is not your heart.

He suddenly felt unspeakable loneliness, what would the man who was suddenly left completely alone in the world.
He is no longer afraid because the strength to fear no more. The fear was gone, only loneliness inside a huge hole, somewhere on the level of the solar plexus.

You're devastated, and now you're sick of yourself, from the countless reflections, twins, from thousands and thousands of people that you try on; from scattered around the masks, from fear, from the eternal obsessive thoughts, from the sound of his own voice. Every wall, every object in this house is a mirror - wherever you huddled wherever he decided to run away, will only see yourself. You're sick, but nothing could vomit out because you're sick of your own emptiness. Yes, that's what you've become.
Only you can fill yourself.
"Shut up," Peter said.

Autumn has always been the strangest time in my life. Completely incomprehensible, I'd even call it a timelessness - when we lose ourselves and find again. Autumn is tricky. It transforms us into a disgusting weak-willed namby-pamby, enjoying the fading of nature, breathing in the smell of damp earth and leaves perepeluk, or even worse, writing poems about it. One day in September, I almost started to write poetry. Thanks to my journalistic instincts - I knew immediately what was complete nonsense, and time has stopped it's a lost cause. I hate autumn because it softens us to the pink snot. And exactly for this I love her.

Each person, even if outwardly friendly and helpful, there is a dark side. Sometimes it is almost invisible to others, and often the person himself is surprised to find it in yourself, having made a fatal mistake. Some call it their inner beast. Someone he is stronger relatively "light" side (I say "relatively" because the concepts of good and evil relative), someone weaker. But the beast is for everyone.
People going through a difficult period, sometimes blame a beast. They say they can't cope with his dark side, that darkness is stronger than them. Most often, they are asked to help defeat the beast and kill him. The dark side prevents them from living, leads to terrible situations. A person can not cope with the urges of his beast, hurting others, and eventually yourself.
But the answer I give is always the same: the beast inside don't need to kill. Have to tame it and make an ally. So it does not bite man and his family. He ate only what he is given, and in a difficult situation would come to help. Yes, it's possible with the beast within can live in mutual benefits, creating a symbiotic relationship.
How to tame the beast? In different cases it is different. As with normal animals, the beast within - lots of families and types, and each one is unique. Consequently, each needs its own approach. This is the hardest work. First, the inner beast needs to be seen to appreciate its size, describe it, understand what he wants and what he breathes - and only then to tame.
There is only one strict rule: the beast needs to feed. Otherwise, the symbiosis will not work. If you do not feed the beast, it will eat you.
Listen to the inner beast. You know him better than he knows you. Feed it carefully so that it did not bite you finger. This beast must obey you, not you it. And then it will do you good.
If you properly tame the beast, he will give you strength when they seemingly nowhere to take. He will protect you and your loved ones and will cut the throat of the enemies when necessary. And this, unfortunately, is often necessary; life feeds on rosy and soft as the beast eats those who are not able to cope with it.

I used that too often not everything goes according to plan. Will the case much stronger than we think, and so I rarely say the words promises. Do not argue: much depends on ourselves. When we try to execute, we apply the efforts that have maximum to improve the probability of success. But this probability is very rarely one hundred percent (notice I did not say "never"). Even if we're going to do and, moreover, can emerge some subtle little thing that goes wrong.