Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, ” I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.

Honest dishonesty. That’s quite the oxymoron – but I like the originality that you’ve brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer, ” he added jokingly.

It will all work out, Inas. You come from a long line of survivors and strong women. So everything will be fine in the end. And we are always with you in spirit, to guide you and love you.

I’m not sure. But – unless I’m struggling with the darkness within – I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is.

Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.

Because in the end, we die. It’s like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: ‘in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.

Don’t invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up, ” she used to warn me.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)

Isn’t it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?

So if you choose me, then you have declared me more special to you than anyone else, because only one man can have that honor.

the main thing is to make history not to write it

The shortest road man walks, is sadly the road of gratitude!

The old world told men merely about to live and to die.Today men think about defeating death and resurrection.

She may resemble a mythical angel, but she moved like an x-rated wet dream

Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier.