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One day I was drawing a model from life, and Gleyre began to criticize my work:

Too strong emotions deprive us of the ability to critically analyze. We do not see the long-term and immediate consequences of our actions and, as a result, we cannot distinguish between what is good and what is bad.

Here,” said Prospero, “here are the Three Fat Men.” They crushed the poor people. They forced us to work until we sweat blood and took everything from us. See how fat they have become! We defeated them. Now we will work for ourselves, we will all be equal. We will have neither rich people, nor lazy people, nor gluttons. Then we will feel good, we will all be full and rich. If we feel bad, we will know that there is no one who is getting fat while we are hungry...

- Valya. This is absolutely impossible!

You need to accustom yourself to prayer when everything is good, so that this skill will work when things are bad. Because at the moment of testing, each of us experiences carnal weakness - panic, fear, confusion, loss of strength; and if the spirit, strengthened by prayer, is vigorous, then it subdues the weakened flesh, guides it, and gives courage to accomplish feats.

It’s like alcohol and sex, at first it’s very bad and disgusting, and then nothing, you get involved, and don’t even understand how you can live without them.

In revenge he brought... a wolf.

The owner gives us one like this - trouble!

I keep pretending there are no problems.

In every person and animal, in every bird there lives a small warm sunbeam. And if you treat every living creature with kindness (just not pretend, but for real), then this sunbeam will awaken in him. And everyone will also respond kindly to you, because they will feel the sun and life within themselves. And if it suddenly seems to you that a person is angry or doing something bad, don’t immediately get angry with him, don’t blame him. This simply means that the sunbeam is already very soundly asleep. Try to wake him up and see how well everything will be!

- If he loves his country, he will make it better! Let him work, fight, let him finally suffer, but don’t run! Saltykov-Shchedrin, naturally, without analogies, he hated the tsarist order so much and this is what he wrote: “I was in well-disposed foreign places and I don’t remember a moment in which my heart did not rush to Russia. It's good there. But here, let’s say, it’s not so good. But just imagine, it still turns out that we are better. It’s better because it’s more painful.” This is a very special logic, but it is the logic of love.

Now he lived a happy life: he went to the theaters, went for rides in the royal garden and helped the poor a lot. And he did well: he knew from his own experience how bad it was to be penniless!

Even handing over your own partner to another man, which is the most excruciating and painful experience imaginable, is much more bearable than not being able to separate from her.