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Sober Perseverance Is More Effective Than Enthusiastic Emotions, Which Are All Too Capable Of Being Transferred, With Little Difficulty, To Something Different Each Day.

Modern Man Must Descend The Spiral Of His Own Absurdity To The Lowest Point; Only Then Can He Look Beyond It. It Is Obviously Impossible To Get Around It, Jump Over It, Or Simply Avoid It.

What's Certain Is That A Totalitarian Enclave Like Cuba's Can't Continue To Exist, So Change Will Definitely Come There, Eventually.

You Do Not Become A ''dissident'' Just Because You Decide One Day To Take Up This Most Unusual Career. You Are Thrown Into It By Your Personal Sense Of Responsibility, Combined With A Complex Set Of External Circumstances. You Are Cast Out Of The Existing Structures And Placed In A Position Of Conflict With Them. It Begins As An Attempt To Do Your Work Well, And Ends With Being Branded An Enemy Of Society.

Education Is The Ability To Perceive The Hidden Connections Between Phenomena.