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“I am tormented by temptations." "What kind? There is a cure for temptation." "What?" "Yielding to it.“”
Le Pere Goriot • Honore de Balzac“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.”
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond““He felt there were no limits to his capacity for fasting.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka“Though men are inseparable from the Logos, yet they are separated in it; and though they encounter it daily, they are alienated from it”
Fragments • Heraclitus