"Gigachad are you a democrat or republican?"
"The Iliad"
"I personally believe in free market catholicism but public healthcare is a must."
"The Iliad"
"The beautiful must declare war on the ugly. There is no coexistence. There are no compromises with the filth of the world, because by nature it is like a virus, or rot—it will suffocate everything if left to its own devices."
Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.
- Andrei Tarkovsky
"Preparing for death is preparing for liberty. A man who has learned to die has unlearned being a slave. Knowledge of death frees us from all subjection and constraint. Life has no evil for him who has thoroughly grasped that loss of life is not an evil."
-Montaigne