Regenerative experiences: Plunge into the sea. The sun. An old city. Silence. - Susan Sontag

Love is friendship on fire — anonymous

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

Not only is Fascism (and overt military rule) the probable destiny of all Communist societies — especially when their populations are moved to revolt — but Communism is in itself a variant, the most successful variant, of Fascism. Fascism with a human face.