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The quality of our life is determined by how we relate to realities, what meaning we attribute to them, how we relate to them, what state of mind they create for us.

When love rushes towards love, everything loses its meaning. Time and space give way to love.

- By the way, I tried to get around the word "dead end", just so as not to provoke panic. I suggest calling this place “cul-de-sac”.

He assured me that everything would be okay, but perhaps the word okay had different meanings to us.

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it comes to reasoning and thinking that we disagree with. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for participating in a thought that they don't like, the crime of thought becomes a reality.

These demagogic nonsense undermine conservative claims to truth. And it has political implications: supposedly conservative Pence and company have been spreading the lie for a week that the free market is a failure, and economic fascism from above in each case is the solution to the problem of lost American jobs. When the truth doesn't matter, lies about politics are bound to follow.

The table, painted with children's crayons, is thrown away by the shock wave, forever.
Everything that was here mattered, now only ash.

The monster is a frighteningly strong and sometimes disgusting creature, notable precisely because of the horror that inspires it. However, despite its original meaning, this term can also be used to refer to a person who sharply and usually for the worse differs from others in his moral qualities. As Primo Levi, an Italian writer and poet who survived the Auschwitz imprisonment, said, “There are monsters, but their numbers are too small to be a real threat. Ordinary people are much more dangerous - employees, functionaries, ready to believe and act without asking any questions. " What distinguishes the nature of the monstrous from the nature of man? Man obeys the law, be it the law of nature or the law of society. The monster doesn't just break the law - it repeals it. Who do we usually call monsters? For example, a werewolf is a monster that overrides the laws of nature. Transforms from a man to a wolf and vice versa. Sociopaths and maniacs are monsters that annul the laws of society. The law establishes what psychoanalysis calls reality testing, the need to measure oneself against the laws of nature and the laws of this society. Testing reality and bumping into laws and prohibitions, we see our limitations and experience losses. Coming close to the line established by the law, we feel anxiety, anxiety of approaching our own limit. Overcoming this trait, the human is transformed into a monstrous, not knowing limitations, anxiety and loss. But what is provoking such a transformation? What kind of person can be called a monster and what kind of monster can be considered evil? Who in general has the right to operate with such quantities as good or evil?

We come here, into this world, and then we die. And that can't change anything. But we can live our lives in a way that matters.

"Geopolitics" in its current fascist sense is one of the pseudoscientic terms that have long been used with greater or lesser success by German nationalist science. This manner was in use very long before Hitler. Suffice it to recall the famous "Indo-Germans", by which, to the amazement of French, English and other scientists, one day in Germany began to understand the Indo-Europeans. "Geopolitics" arose, like the "Indo-Europeans", even before Hitler. But only now, in Hitler's Germany, has the term acquired such a militant political meaning. According to the exact meaning of the two Greek words included in this term, geopolitics is a policy associated with land, i.e., with land acquisitions, with the question of the possession of a new land and the settlement of this land.

Explanation of the quote:

collection "Against fascist falsification of history"
1939 edition

Ultimately, all life is a sacrifice for the benefit of what we emphasize.

All your actions matter. And for you, and for the whole world.

Let us not underestimate the significance of the fact: someday a flower of truth will bloom on it.

No matter how cool things one person can think up, write, draw, formulate - all this does not matter without context, without history, within which it all exists. It may be possible to throw out the words from the song, but our collective desire is not to be thrown out, there is no getting away from it, and when we are all gone, what is important for us will turn into stories and legends. Someone's stories will turn out to be more important and interesting than others ... To preserve and remember means to continue to be, but if something was forgotten and destroyed, this does not mean that it was not. Only now we will never know about it.