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“It was strange how both realms bordered on each other, how close together they were! For example, when Lina, our servant girl, sat with us by the living-room door at evening prayers and added her clear voice to the hymn, her washed hands folded on her smoothed-down apron, she belonged with father and mother, to us, to those that dwelled in light and righteousness. But”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”
Meditations • Marcus Aurelius“War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.”
Israel Potter • Herman Melville“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““When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as […] it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person.””
Midnight Library • Matt Haig
