“Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.”
Thoughts, 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (posthumous), p. 30
“A new epoch has begun. You and I will wait for it together.”
Remarks to her friend Lydia Chukovskaya (March 1956), as quoted in Joseph Stalin : A Biographical Companion (1999) by Helen Rappaport, p. 2
Context: Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree. Mute separations, mute black, bloody events in every family. Invisible mourning worn by mothers and wives. Now the arrested are returning, and two Russias stare each other in the eyes: the ones that put them in prison and the ones who were put in prison. A new epoch has begun. You and I will wait for it together.
“Closed between mortal things
(Even the starry sky will end)
Why do I crave God?”
Dannazione (Damnation) (29 June 1916). Architecture: from time of mind to time of nature https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/techne/article/view/9757
Original: (it) Chiuso fra cose mortali
(Anche il cielo stellato finirà)
Perché bramo Dio?
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”