It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance o… - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

As the two-thousand-year-old saying goes, you can have eyes and still not see. But a hard life improves vision.

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

A work of art bears within itself its own verification: conceptions which are devised or stretched do not stand being portrayed in images, they all come crashing down, appear sickly and pale, convince no one. But those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force — they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them.