The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Should a man,
to preserve his life, pay everything that gives life colour,
scent
and excitement? Can one accept a life of digestion,
respiration, muscular
and brain activity-and nothing
more? 'Become a walking blueprint? Is this not an
exorbitant price? Is it not a mockery? Should one pay? Seven years in the army and seven years in the camp,twice seven years twice that mythical or biblical term,then to be deprived of the ability to tell what is a man and what is a woman — is not a price extortionate?

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.