You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal. But what if the paths came to an end? One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents, husband, country, and love were gone - what was left to betray?

nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.