23, March 2009

“In historical events great men — so-called — are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity.”

War and Peace Bk. IX, ch. 1

I have nothing to say. My life is slowing down, the days are beginning to stretch out, and I can finally sleep a bit longer.