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“In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.”
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • Mark Twain““Milena among the saviors! Milena who is constantly discovering in herself that the only way to save another person is by being there and nothing else. Moreover, she has already saved me once with her presence and now, after the fact, is trying to do so with other, infinitely smaller means. Naturally, saving someone from drowning is a great deed, but what good is it if the savior then sends the saved a gift-certificate for a swimming course?” (31 July 1920)”
Letters To Milena • Franz Kafka“That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive.”
The World As Will and Representation • Arthur Schopenhauer“Books are the training weights of the mind.”
The Art of Living • Epictetus“"I did that," says my memory. "I could not have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually the memory yields.”
Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche