Author of quotes: Igor Ivanovich Garin. Page 1

Dark life defies rational analysis, ordering, or rational law. She is messy, illogical, incoherent. A terrible, destructive element, chaos, mystery is hidden behind a dark will, striving, and effort. No matter how much we know about a person, none of his actions can be generalized.

Behind the articles of the laws is hidden the crudest lawlessness, built on mutual responsibility, behind equality and justice are hidden eternal caste and hierarchy, behind the holy truth is a lie, and that in general this person, for and for whose sake we are doing everything, is the most unnecessary, interfering, subject to cruelty. suppressing creature.

No, Kafka is not passivity, rather the opposite: a heightened awareness of activity, activism, frantic vitality, resourcefulness, the energy of evil. Good is not absent, but it is too puny and lifeless to enter into battle on equal terms. His defeat in a mass society is inevitable. The entire history of mass societies is the history of his defeat.

We are all heroes of Kafka, with daily transitions from hope to longing and from hopeless wisdom to voluntary blindness.

Kafka's realism transcends the historical moment. Because he did not turn reality into absurdity, but comprehended the absurdity of reality. Because his fantasy is our reality.

In my four districts, among all other things, people, like drunks, are continuously falling from the scaffolding into cars, all the beams topple over, all the supports are cracking, all the stairs are crumbling, everything that goes up immediately falls down, and the workers themselves stumble over what is fed down. ... And the head just pops from the girls from the porcelain factories, who are continuously rolling down the steps along with a whole tower of dishes.

In the improbable and fabulous, there is more human than in a real person.

Hertzmanovsky-Orlando, a Swift satirist, never dared to publish his Cockroach in 77 years of his life.

Do you want to be famous? Then take the trouble to die.

The spirit of man and the tread of the world under all circumstances and at all times are so equal to themselves that the true is rarely completely new, and the new is quite true.

When it comes to sunset - sit and do not flutter, so as not to stink prematurely ...

There is a certain symbol in this: Epochs of prosperity give rise to a continuous lie about a person and the state, epochs of decline - a brilliant truth about them.

Kafka did not believe in art-redemption and art-salvation. Intervention in life is useless - it is too life for that. Art cannot change anything. all lofty ideals are destroyed when faced with it. The artist only has to stay awake when the world is asleep in order to become a useless and impartial witness to yet another cruelty.

Painful heightened impressionability, this intuition of pain, revealed to him a huge secret world, but even in his most vivid revelations, he underestimated the monstrosity of man: having foreseen violence, fear, trampling, he could not imagine the amount of defeated flesh.