This last volume of memoirs is for Irina Alexandrovna Lugovskaya who came from another world.
History, with its flickering lamp, stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale flames the passions of former days.
-WINSTON CHURCHILL
What's important is not fame, nor glory, but the ability to endure, to be able to bear one's cross and have faith.
-ANTON CHEKHOV
The mystery and the immensity of human existence.
-RADHAKRISHNAN
Life, as it is imposed on us, is too hard; it brings us too many pains, disappointments, insoluable tasks.…The intention that man should be "happy" is not contained in the plan of "Creation."
-SIGMUND FREUD
No beast is more savage than man, when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
-PLUTARCH
A culture which disavowed the tragic sense of life does not find it easy to deal with life's deeper complexities without despair.
-REINHOLD NIEBUHR
Life must move forward, but it can only be understood backward.
-S?REN KIERKEGAARD
The universe was always insecure.
-HERBERT BUTTERFIELD
