“A day in a garden is worth more than years spent in cities, in libraries, or even amid works of art. The imperishable arises from the simple. So the New Testament arises from the blessedness of the child and the secret hidden in flowers.”
— Ernst Jünger, Autor und Autorschaft.
Inscriptions on Immanuel Kant's grave in Könisberg, after the city was captured by Soviet troops.
"Truth is all the wisdom of life."
"Did you think that a Russian Ivan would stand on your ashes???"
"Volodya, Port Arthur, Moscow."
"The Ural people were here."
"We were here too. Leningrad."
"Now do you understand that the world is material?"
Legendary Soviet rockstar Viktor Tsoi of the band Kino working his day job as a stoker in a Leningrad boiler room, required by law to avoid being prosecuted for "parasitism", 1986.