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“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”
Thoughts Out of Season • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”
East Of Eden • John Steinbeck“What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”
The Critic as Artist • Oscar Wilde“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
East Of Eden • John Steinbeck“The vine bears three bunches of grapes: the first is that of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of violence.”
Fragment • Epictetus