Of all things broken and lost, porcelain troubles me most. - Czesław Miłosz

Men will clutch illusions when they have nothing else to hold onto.

You are a tongue of the debased, of the unreasonable, hating themselves even more than they hate other nations, a tongue of informers, a tongue of the confused, ill with their own innocence. But without you, who am I? Only a scholar in a distant country, a success, without fears and humiliations. Yes, who am I without you? Just a philosopher, like everyone else.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.