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I am far from thinking that the Golden Age has already arrived... For me, paradise will come at the very moment the seeds disappear in Moscow. It is quite possible that I am a geek who does not understand the great significance of this purely national product... but it is quite possible that the seeds are simply an abomination that threatens to drown us in their slobbering husks.
Quote Explanation: Mikhail Bulgakov, fragment from an article, 1923
The age of insane speeds!
- And I, the fool, was going to die. Ask, father, maybe you should get married one last time?
There is only now and today. Silence and tranquility of this day..
They won't be able to forget.
Quote Explanation: 1941
Take care and value books all your life.
Much more significant than worldly vain glory!
Why is it that closer to old age - more often, alas, a hopeless prose writer?
Why do the world's leading scientists even put forward these far-fetched theories? Because they understand that a purely physical explanation of the world cannot be adequate. They understand that a purely naturalistic picture cannot answer the most important and pressing questions. At the same time, they recognize that the Universe has all the characteristics of a designed, created system, as if there was a plan and will behind it all. But they refuse to admit that they actually mean God. So they have to invent aliens, computer simulations, and other simple stories to make sense of things that make no sense from the point of view of strict materialism. Maybe one day they will unearth the truth they worked so hard to hide.
But tell a writer that his work is a lie, and he is quite ready to hang himself. Burn, go to extremes, end the century. I saw this in times much younger than these.
You can drown with me.
Quote Explanation: 1946 year.
My reader, and whoever it may be, for a whole century without getting tired?
Humanity and compassion are inherent in human beings, both individually and socially. This is the only species of living beings in which abstract thinking is developed to such an extent that it is able to put itself in the place of another person. It wasn't always like that, of course. Our ancestors were a little more cruel than we are, and their ancestors were even more cruel, and so on ad infinitum. But now, century after century, the expression Man
Quote Explanation: (Nikita Khanov for the magazine "Own Avalon")
... as for me, the human life of each other is a hundred times more beautiful than eternity apart. Why immortality, Wizard, if you spend it on regrets? Thoughts about the past and not come true? And I'm talking about real life. For both of us…
Quote Explanation: Quote from the story When
