Sasha

“We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.”
― George Orwell

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
― Bertrand Russell