"Only one who loves understands the Impossible, and only he desires it in deadly earnest and will make it possible, no matter the path that leads him there."
— Andrei Platonovich Platonov; The Sun, the Moon, and the Ether Channel
"In October, when leaves have already yellowed, dulled and drooped, there come blue-eyed days; on such a day, throw back your head so you cannot see the earth, and you can believe there is still joy, it is still summer."
— Evgeny Ivanovich Zamiatin, The Cave
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
— Anaïs Nin
"Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
— Albert Schweitzer
"An instant—and the magic yarn is o’er—
And again the soul is filled with hope…"
— Afansaii Fet
"What nimble thoughts do not then brim my sleep-drowned mind?"
— Derzhavin
