❝Slavery made its appearance, even voluntary slavery in which the weak submitted to the strong of their own free will, if only in order to gain their support to oppress those who were even weaker than themselves.❞
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man [1877]
❝They experienced suffering and came to love it; they declared that suffering was the only way to truth.❞
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man [1877]
❝Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.❞
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man [1877]
Oh my my! this image of Cosmic Quintuple makes me feel numb. These four dots (actually five, the fifth is at the centre with two more dots.) are created from a single Quasar. This effect is known as Gravitational Lensing. Currently working on that.