💬 Quotes

"“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”"

"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"

"Know your own happiness. Want nothing but patience to endure and enact it."

"It is not everyone who has your passion for dead leaves."

"I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."

"Constant engagement is not actually required for an attachment; to be at ease in the same society is a wonderful step towards it."

"Elinor, this is too much. To take rise in the world, to be happy, to be honoured, to be everything that is fortunate, nobody denies; but I have been too miserable to be easily comforted."

"Die Zeichnung ist nicht Illustration des Textes, sondern ein eigener Weg in das Unbekannte der Hölle."

"Im Strich liegt das Gewicht der Schuld und die Schwere des Abstiegs."

"Das Schwarz und Weiß der Radierung fängt die absolute Verlorenheit der Seele ein."

"Jede Linie ist ein Seufzer, jeder Schatten ein verlorener Hoffnungsschimmer im Jenseits."

"Der Körper wird bei Dante zur Landschaft des Schmerzes, die die Hand des Künstlers neu vermisst."

"Durch das Labyrinth der Hölle führt kein Ausweg, nur die unerbittliche Klarheit der Form."

"The harsh reality of Soviet economic life was that survival often depended on bypassing the official rules rather than following them."

"For the average Soviet citizen, the centrally planned economy was not an abstract theory, but a daily obstacle course of shortages and long queues."

"The second economy acted as both a parasite on the socialist state and the vital glue that kept the entire system from completely falling apart."

"Glasnost opened the floodgates to a painful historical truth that had been suppressed for generations, forcing a national reckoning with the past."

"Workplace alienation was institutionalized; workers pretended to work, and the state pretended to pay them, creating a hollowed-out labor force."

"The collapse of the Soviet system was ultimately not just a failure of ideology, but a systemic failure to provide the basic dignity of a decent standard of living."

"The worth of each thing is in its worthiness."