With Every Death, A World Is Disappearing.

Being Condemned By Fate To Perpetual Togetherness, We Better Make That Shared Fate Into Our Shared, Consciously And Gladly Embraced, Destiny.

Lev (léon) Shestov, A Russian Jew Who Later Became A French Jew And Even Converted To Catholicism, Defined God Not By His Power To Create The Laws Of Universe, But His Ability To Break Them At Will - The Capacity For Miracles. God Could Cancel The Past! For Instance, God Could Decide Retrospectively, That Socrates Was Never Poisoned... Assimilation Demanded A Miracle: That You Stop Having Been Somebody Else Before... But Only God Can Do It.

Power, In A Nutshell, Is The Ability To Get Things Done, And Politics Is The Ability To Decide Which Things Need To Be Done.

Never Paint Epic Canvases During The Revolution, Because The Revolutionaries Will Tear Them Apart.

Alas, You Don't Need Monsters For Monstrous Deeds To Be Accomplished.