Ani > Ani's Quotes

“Where exactly does it come from, I’d like to know, this ineradicable attitude of superiority toward the past? This stubbornly dumb, can’t-kill-it-with-an-ax conviction that we, the now, critically and categorically know better than they, the past. Is it from the mere fact that their future is known to us, that we know what happens? (Nothing good.) It’s much the way we treat small children— pedantic and permissive at the same time. And we always think of the people of the past — just as we do of children — as being naïve in everything from their clothes and hairstyles to their thoughts and feelings.”
― Oksana Zabuzhko, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

“Taking cruelty for strength is the most common mistake of youth. Youth only knows life by the intensity of its own feelings—a continuous explosive fortissimo with a foot on the pedal. Youth knows nothing of that supreme sensitivity, the true sensitivity of the strong that denies cruelty; youth has no inkling of the force with which a barely audible pianissimo can strike under your heart.”
― Oksana Zabuzhko, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

“Пам'ять, як море, то викидатиме спогади на берег, то ховатиме їх на дно, як водорості, як мушлі, але нічого, нічого з неї не
зникне”
― Анастасія Левкова, За Перекопом є земля