Communications Specialist in Michurin Federal Scientific Center, Scientific and Technical Information Group. ========== Selected quotes ========== Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One`s born at once one is guilty. ...`Most men will not swim before they are able to.` Is not that witty? Naturally, they won`t swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won`t think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what`s more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown. Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours. -Hermann Hesse, Der Steppenwolf ©