Andrei Vasilachi

“The West: a sweet-smelling rottenness, a perfumed corpse.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“The historical imagination has never flown so far, even in a dream; for now the history of man is merely the continuation of that of animals and plants; the universal historian finds traces of himself even in the utter depths of the sea, in the living slime. He stands astounded in the face of the enormous way that man has run, and his gaze quivers before the mightier wonder, the modern man who can see all the way! He stands proudly on the pyramid of the world-process; and while he lays the final stone of his knowledge, he seems to cry aloud to listening Nature: "We are at the top, we are at the top; we are the completion of Nature!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

“Nu avem timp să citim totul de-a fir a păr, nu avem timp nici măcar să citim titlurile tuturor cărților, nu avem timp nici măcar să citim prima literă din titlurile tuturor cărților. Haosul livresc e desăvîrșit și e definitiv.”
― Valeriu Gherghel, Breviarul sceptic. Și alte eseuri despre simplitate

“Старшая была музыкантша, средняя была замечательный живописец; но об этом почти никто не знал многие годы, и обнаружилось это только в самое последнее время, да и то нечаянно. Одним словом, про них говорилось чрезвычайно много похвального. Но были и недоброжелатели. С ужасом говорилось о том, сколько книг они прочитали.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Идиот (Полное собрание сочинений Book 6)