Sasha Krasnov > Sasha's Quotes

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
― André Gide

“L'homme nie essentiellement ses besoins animaux, c'est le point sur lequel portèrent la plupart de ses interdits, dont l'universalité est si frappante et qui vont en apparence si bien de soi qu'il n'en est jamais question.

(Human beings essentially deny their animalistic needs, and this is the focus of most of their prohibitions, which are so strikingly universal and seemingly self-evident that they are never mentioned.)”
― Georges Bataille, Історія еротизму

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
― Franz Kafka

“I think,” she said gently, “it must be Patience. For, in the long run, it is Patience that overcomes all things.”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins Opens the Door