Erika Szeles. She was born in 1941. She lived in the 13th district of Budapest with her mother, who raised her daughter by her own after her husband died in the Second World War. Erika studied to become a cook, she worked at hotel “Béke szálló” when the revolution broke out. She was inspired by her boyfriend to join a group of Hungarian freedom-fighters and worked as a Red Cross nurse to help the injured. Erika was shot in her neck by a Soviet soldier on 7th of November 1956, when the revolution was already suppressed.
The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.
— Indro Montanelli
— Indro Montanelli
“We should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Three, “On Old and New Tablets,” §23 (excerpt).
—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Three, “On Old and New Tablets,” §23 (excerpt).
“Whoever has gained wisdom concerning ancient origins will eventually look for wells of the future and for new origins.”
—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Three, “On Old and New Tablets,” §25 (excerpt).
—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Three, “On Old and New Tablets,” §25 (excerpt).
“Everybody has experienced the defeat of their lives. Nobody has a life that worked out the way they wanted it to work out. We all begin as the hero of our own dramas, in centre stage, and inevitably life moves us out of centre stage, defeats the hero, overturns the plot and the strategy and we’re left on the sidelines, wondering why we no longer have a part, or want a part, in the whole damn thing. So everybody’s experienced this. When it’s presented to us sweetly, the feeling goes from heart to heart and we feel less isolated and we feel part of the great human chain, which is really involved with the recognition of defeat.”
— Leonard Cohen on why people enjoy listening to melancholy songs (from a BBC radio interview in 2007)
— Leonard Cohen on why people enjoy listening to melancholy songs (from a BBC radio interview in 2007)