Take as much time as you need to heal emotionally. You can't turn the page in just one day. Sometimes you need to take many small steps to free yourself from your broken self.
You see, ninety percent of people try to pretend they are not who they are. This is where panache, posture, complacency, antics, etc. appear. And in general, Tamara, if you see that a person is laughing at himself, you can be absolutely sure that he is not a fool, since the ability to make fun of himself is a clear and indisputable sign of intelligence .
Quote Explanation: from a letter to Tamara Urzhumova, 1963.
My personal tragedy, which cannot, which should not be anyone else's concern, is that I had to leave my native language, my native dialect, my rich, infinitely rich and obedient Russian language, for the sake of second-rate English.
Quote Explanation: from an interview with Peter Duvall-Smith, 1962.
I believe in man, in his amazing vitality, which does not fade even at the bottom of a deep ditch and is capable of helping him overcome the greatest degeneration, and I believe: this vitality is so strong and so tempting that it will always be felt as hope and as challenge, and that force that allows a person to dream about his high possibilities and again and again brings him out of the bestial state is always the same, no matter what it is called: today - religion, tomorrow - reason, the day after tomorrow - somehow differently.
Quote Explanation: Hermann Hesse, from a letter to Rufold Humm.
How can you give anything to your family, to society, if you don't know how to love yourself? Everything you say - I love my mom, dad - is all nonsense. It doesn't mean anything. Because you have an expectation towards these people. And you call it love. And if these expectations are not met, then love will also dissolve in space.
Goodness, love, conscience - these are the most precious things in a person. And the absence of this in music, literature, and painting cannot be saved by original sound combinations, exquisite rhymes, or bright colors.
Quote Explanation: from a letter to Boris Tishchenko, 1965.
[Antinomy (from the Greek antinomia - contradiction in the law) is a reasoning that proves that two statements that are a negation of each other follow from one another.]
It is not enough to believe in God. You need God to believe in you too. I would believe that your kindness is not ostentatious, your generosity is selfless. Your commitment to justice is sincere.