Ideas and Quotes
At the end of each day I fill this in with things I want to share or things I found somewhere. Always growing. New entries go at the top.
24.06.2026
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Health is good. I eat berries and ride horseback a lot. Mental languor. One thing to note: I am by nature a very wicked person, very slow to do good, and therefore I need great effort not to be a complete scoundrel. As Yuri Samarin once put it very well—he is an excellent teacher of mathematics because he is very slow at mathematics. I am exactly the same with mathematics, but what matters is that I am likewise very slow when it comes to goodness—and therefore not entirely wicked. No, I'll say boldly: a good teacher. (L. N. Tolstoy, Yasnaya Polyana, 1903)
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Perhaps it's worth recording everything. This will make it possible to return to past, forgotten thoughts. And for someone, perhaps, it will help them understand who I am and whether they'll find it interesting to be here at all.