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“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
Prometheus Misbound • Andre Gide“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.”
East Of Eden • John Steinbeck“To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.”
Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevski“ “If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.””
Uncle Vanya • Anton Chekhov“To judge the appearances we receive of things, we should need a judicatory instrument; to verify this instrument, we should need a demonstration; to rectify this demonstration, we should need an instrument: so here we are arguing in a circle. Seeing the senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason, so here we are retreating backwards to all eternity.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne