Saint Seraphim of Sarov.
No external circumstances, neither war, nor persecution, nor closed churches, can take from the believer what matters most. Easter was celebrated in the camps and in the catacombs, and the closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre by the Pharisees will not stand in the way of Easter
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
