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“By the streets of "by and by" one arrives at the house of "never."”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes“The formula 'two plus two equals five' is not without its attractions.”
Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevski“Variant translation: Your question, Mr. Examining Magistrate, as to whether I am a house-painter — although you did not ask a question at all, you made a statement — typifies exactly the kind of proceedings that are being instituted against me.”
The Trial • Franz Kafka“The soul, being a harmony, can never utter a note at variance with the tensions and relaxations and vibrations and other affections of the strings out of which she is composed; she can only follow, she cannot lead them? ...And yet do we not now discover the soul to be doing the exact opposite—leading the elements of which she is believed to be composed; almost always opposing and coercing them in all sorts of ways throughout life... threatening and reprimanding the desires, passions, fears, as if talking to a thing which is not herself...”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra • F Nietzsche