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A good historian is like a good translator. He brings the meaning out of the past without imposing the meaning. Peter Brown

Man is a kind of play with time, so I decided to use it this way—by including history in my biography. Gleb Pavlovsky

An Interesting Fact, Incidentally

Essential

Gleb Pavlovsky An Afterthought

I’ll start with the statement: murder is indicated to man. Mikhail Gefter

Alexander Piatigorsky On Fear

Every indication from fundamental physics suggests the laws of physics can change from place to place. Leonard Susskind

My memory is full of lives of other people. I haven’t lived seventy years; I’ve lived seventy thousand years. Umberto Eco

I’m destined to punch people’s faces. This is my playing; I’m punching faces. Oleg Karavaichuk

I was a little child when I realized that living in this world is impossible. Ilya Kabakov

My hope is that I’m not a complete fucking asshole after I’m dead. Baby Dee

London is a kind of disarray where everyone knows how to behave. But separately. Alexander Piatigorsky

Almost everything I do in philosophy to be derived from this remark: speech comes to an end, the body comes to an end… Stanley Cavell

Somehow the universe has a tendency to be as interesting as possible, more and more diverse, more and more interesting. Freeman Dyson

In strollers, babies, two-year-olds—what are they doing in the museum? They shouldn’t be there! Fran Lebowitz

Alexander Piatigorsky Terror and Thought