Selected quotes
A few lines that stay with you. Every quote leads back to the essay it came from.
I care about what you did.
There won't be a separate line for people who just wanted to do graphic design.
Freedom is not "doing whatever I want." It is not living according to someone else's lies, not faking your conscience, not serving what you despise. You can be free even in prison — remember Navalny: he was honest with himself to the end and was who he was. There are many other examples: Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and many, many others.
Time doesn't pause when you emigrate. These years count as part of your life too.
The court can carry on without me.
And I find it completely fucking insane how carefully people count their money and how casually they give away their time.
Incredible trade. Three seconds of someone else's attention for a substantial chunk of your future. I hope he at least hit like.
Why does their impression get a vote, but your LIFE doesn't?
Effort does not guarantee success, and a lack of success doesn't prove you're talentless. But your effort doesn't prove the result is good either.
I am not worthy of remembrance — just like 99.99% of all people who have ever lived. And that’s okay.
As I write this, I realize I’m writing about myself. I’m constantly trying. I’m constantly playing roles. And that’s probably why Durov irritates me: he’s a mirror of what I’m afraid of in myself.