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“Every living creature is happy when he fulfills his destiny, that is, when he realizes himself, when he is being that which in truth he is. For this reason, Schlegel, inverting the relationship between pleasure and destiny, said, “We have a genius for what we like.” Genius, man’s superlative gift for doing something, always carries a look of supreme pleasure.”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset“Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering -- a hell of boredom.”
Les Misérables • VICTOR HUGO“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
The Art Of War • Sun Tzu“ “Living characters! Life must be represented not as it is, but as it ought to be; as it appears in dreams.””
Uncle Vanya • Anton Chekhov““But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” ”
1984 • George Orwell