"Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the fear of war. 'If the whole complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been.' And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony."

Viktor Sklovsky, the Germans call him Schklowskij or Schklowski, his name was Виктор Борисович Шкловский.