The Life, the Universe, and Everything
From Robert Greene “The 48 Laws of Power”.
Preface, page xvii
The feeling of having no power over people and events is generally unbearable to us – when we feel helpless we feel miserable. No one wants less power; everyone wants more. In the world today, however, it is dangerous to seem too power hungry, to be [...]
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
Anyone who wishes to understand the nature of beauty should first of all ask himself: where is it located? Can we say that it is somewhere inside the woman who is considered beautiful? Can we say, for instance, that there is beauty in the features of her face? Or [...]
“Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silences.” Will Henry
from “Monumental Propaganda” by Vladimir Voinovich
I feel sorry for those future generations who will not even be able to imagine that there was a time when the broad extensive lands of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (broad extensive lands, not expensive foreign brands) were all under the sway of a general system of sociopolitical [...]
from “Monumental Propaganda” by Vladimir Voinovich
[…] I told the Admiral about my conversations with Shubkin. I told him honestly that when I argued with Shubkin I sometimes felt that I was right, but I couldn’t prove it because he crushed me with his authority. And the fact that he was older, and that he’d been [...]
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