Game Bring Characters from Different Books to Life

1994 · Mar 9, 2026

“Expanding your perspective on things—knowledge always saves you from manipulation. The more information you have, the more you understand, the harder it is to manipulate your opinion. And, of course, creating stereotypes and creating one-dimensional, single-cell-minded people who are easy to manipulate serves the interests of manipulation. People are not allowed to think.”
Ilya Kormiltsev

001 · Mar 9, 2026

“Ignorance is strength. Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
(George Orwell, “1984”)

1965 · Mar 9, 2026

“Each of us has a time machine: what takes us into the past is memory. What carries us into the future is dreams.” Herbert Wells, “The Time Machine”
“These feelings from the past sometimes return to me, along with the sound of the rain from back then, and the smell of the wind from back then.” Haruki Murakami

1994 · Mar 9, 2026

“In April 1942, scientists who were prisoners in one of the Gulag’s sharashkas secretly created a time machine. The choice of test subject fell to Leva Kogan, a former postgraduate student at Moscow State University. They decided to send Leva into the relatively near future, just 80 years ahead. The time traveler settled comfortably into the machine; everyone went into another room. A few seconds later, there was a crack, then a whistle—and Leva and the machine disappeared...
Leva reappeared half an hour later, his eyes bulging, his lips trembling, and gray hair suddenly showing at his temples...
By morning, the scientists decided to dismantle the time machine—it had turned out badly, a defective model; such a future could not exist. Apparently, Leva had become stuck somewhere in intertemporal space, and the overloads had caused him to hallucinate.”
Julien Stebo, “Nonsense”
“Strange how easily everything is forgotten except smells.”
Erich Maria Remarque

1965 · Mar 9, 2026

“My brain is merely a receiving device. In outer space there is some kind of core from which we draw knowledge, strength, and inspiration. I have not penetrated the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.” Nikola Tesla
“There is neither space nor time, but their unity.” Albert Einstein

001 · Mar 10, 2026

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. The cosmos is within us; we are made of star-stuff. We are everything that exists; and if we ask questions, it is the universe asking questions about itself.
(Carl Sagan, “Cosmos”)

1965 · Mar 10, 2026

“Science?! Nonsense! In this situation, everyone is equally helpless. I must tell you that we do not want to conquer the Cosmos at all. We want to expand Earth to its boundaries. We do not know what to do with other worlds. We do not need other worlds; we need a mirror. We struggle to make contact and will never find it. We are in the foolish position of a person striving toward a goal he fears and does not need. A human being needs another human being.” “Solaris,” Snaut

1994 · Mar 10, 2026

“A person needs another person. You can talk endlessly about how beautiful, sublime, and fulfilling solitude is, but it is meaningless if there is nowhere to return to from it. Without people, life loses its colors.”
Elchin Safarli, “I Want to Go Home”

“A person needs another person... Just to feel: I love!...”
Ksenia Valakhanovich

1965 · Mar 10, 2026

"I live in that solitude which is so painful in youth, but so delightful in maturity." Albert Einstein
"True happiness by its nature loves solitude. It is the enemy of noise and luxury and is born primarily from love of oneself." Joseph Addison

303707 · Mar 10, 2026

"When happiness comes, become witnesses to happiness. And soon you will discover that as you observe it, happiness disappears, and only you remain. Once you succeed in the case of happiness, you will also succeed in the case of unhappiness. And then the key will be in your hands."
Osho

1965 · Mar 10, 2026

"Happiness does not depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think." Dale Carnegie
"The only happiness in life is the constant striving forward." Émile Zola

21778 · Mar 10, 2026

There are, after all, quiet joys in life. Yesterday, for example, something got into my eye.
Then, when it came out, I felt such relief for half an hour!..
Today I choked again...
*Lidiya Ginzburg, "Notes of a Blockade Man"

They say that misfortune is a good school: perhaps. But happiness is the best university.
It completes the education of a soul capable of goodness and beauty.
*A.S. Pushkin, in a letter to P.V. Nashchokin

1994 · Mar 10, 2026

"Happiness is a feeling and a state of supreme satisfaction."
Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary

"Happiness exists only when there is acceptance." George Orwell

"Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you shift your attention to other things, it will come and quietly settle on your shoulder." Viktor Frankl

303707 · Mar 10, 2026

"Butterflies are the most ephemeral and the most beautiful creatures on Earth. They appear from somewhere, quietly live their tiny lives, demanding almost nothing, and then disappear, probably into some other world... Not at all like ours."....

"To befriend a butterfly, you must first turn yourself into a piece of nature. Switch off the human within you, hide inside—and imagine yourself as a tree, grass, or flower."
Haruki Murakami, "1Q84"

1965 · Mar 11, 2026

"Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you shift your attention to other things, it will come quietly to you and settle on your shoulder." Viktor Frankl
"Never explain anything, and never be ashamed of an equal sense of awe before a butterfly and a hippopotamus." Federico García Lorca

21778 · Mar 11, 2026

Everything is different for each of us. At least on the level of feelings. ...
Happiness cannot be generalized.
* Elchin Safarli, "I Will Return..."

There is no single recipe for happiness that works for everyone; each person has their own idea of happiness.
For one person, it means taking active action, devoted work,
overcoming the impossible; for another, dissolving into everyday life,
in work and nature. Someone else sits in the sunshine and squints like a cat: carefree,
calmness—that is happiness for them. The formulas are wonderfully diverse.
... for myself, I discovered that to be happy, one must come to oneself,
reveal one's personality, understand what it is like. For me, this means creativity:
if you are engaged in something you love—baking pies, plowing fields,
repairing shoes, teaching—and find yourself in it, the path to happiness is open.
It is easy to understand whether you are happy or not: it is when something "chimes" inside you.
Once, BG and I explored this question at length and wrote down the three main signs of happiness:
humming, whistling, or jumping. If you hum,
whistle, or jump, that is the simplest way to understand whether you are happy or not.
* Vyacheslav Polunin—the best clown of the era

001 · Mar 11, 2026

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince)

1965 · Mar 11, 2026

"What makes my heart beat is colorful silence" — Claude Monet
"At any age, a person opens their heart only to someone who opens their heart in return" — Maria Edgeworth

1994 · Mar 11, 2026

"There is not a single moment in my human existence that I can recall without horror: when I first heard My heart beating. That distinct, loud, counting sound, speaking as much of death as of life, struck Me with unprecedented fear and excitement. They put counters everywhere, but how can they carry this counter in their chests, a counter that, with the speed of a magician, ushers life's seconds away?.."
Leonid Andreyev

1965 · Mar 11, 2026

"The task of life is not to live on the side of the majority, but to live according to the inner law that you consciously recognize as your own." — Marcus Aurelius