The proportion of wisdom and stupidity in the head doesn't matter as even one spoon of tar spoils the whole barrel of honey... Thus, before seeking for wisdom one should eradicate all one's stupidity.
I feel like a lightbulb., which the host includes a kick of the foot on the switch... I dissatisfied spark, but the master needs light... No alternative options he's not even considering.
…despite kitchen smoke, despite tv, despite kid screams, school lessons, despite night insomnia, despite overcrowded subway, despite work days 8 hours from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m, despite offence and irritation, despite indifference and emptiness, despite shops and markets, despite diseases and climate changes, despite kith and kin, despite smog and fog, despite fried potato smell in the kitchen, despite hundreds of «but», «if» and «why», despite hundreds of thoughts, despite hundreds of difficulties, despite any distance, despite time.
I look back on my past - on yesterday, on the day before yesterday and think, gosh, I'm such a silly! ...and then I look into tomorrow, into the day after tomorrow and think, how many mistakes I will do... …That's how it flows in the mistakes among the islands of right happy choices - ... I'm a shiplet.
Recent years I was haunted by the thought or rather, fear, that maybe I'm gone.… I is an illusion, a fiction or just a couple of shots in the movie, which is over. To overcome this fear, I got myself a mirror - small mirror, which I kept in my jacket pocket. and took out every 10 minutes, to look at it and make sure, that I still on place, that I still exist.
I'm extremely lazy. In order to survive I have to cultivate quick wits in myself. And those few hours during which I'm capable of working well, should be used as effectively as possible.