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“ "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin."”
Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka“Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.”
Villemain • VICTOR HUGO“Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“In this present life, I reckon that we make the nearest approach to knowledge when we have the least possible concern or interest in the body, and are not saturated with the bodily nature, but remain pure until the hour when God himself is pleased to release us. And then the foolishness of the body will be cleared away and we shall be pure and hold converse with othe pure souls, and know of ourselves the clear light everywhere; and this is surely the light of truth. For no impure thing is allowed to approach the pure. These are the sort of words, Simmias, which the true lovers of wisdom cannot help saying to one another, and thinking.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“The formula 'two plus two equals five' is not without its attractions.”
Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevski