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“I can control my thoughts as necessary; then how can I be troubled? ”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”
Sand and Foam • Kahlil Gibran“The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope.”
Les Misérables • VICTOR HUGO“Beauty's voice speaks gently: it creeps only into the most awakened souls.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra • F Nietzsche““How does Chekhov’s artistic “programme” comment on the message of The Duel, and vice versa? I should like to be a free artist and nothing more, and I regret that God has not given me the power to be one. I hate lying and violence in all their forms. . . . Pharisaism, stupidity and despotism reign not in merchants’ houses and prisons alone. I see them in science, in literature, in the younger generation. . . . That is why I have no preference either for gendarmes, or for butchers, or for scientists, or for writers, or for the younger generation. I regard trade-marks and labels as a superstition. My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom— freedom from violence and lying, whatever forms they may take. This is the programme I would follow if I were a great artist.*””
The Duel • Anton Chekhov