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““The heat was beginning to scorch my cheeks; beads of sweat were gathering in my eyebrows. It was just the same sort of heat as at my mother’s funeral, and I had the same disagreeable sensations—especially in my forehead, where all the veins seemed to be bursting through the skin.””
Stranger • Albert Camus““He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves; then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven; and he will see the sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light of the sun by day?””
Republic • Plato“All things come into being by conflict of opposites.”
Fragments • Heraclitus““How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how difficult in real life!””
The Duel • Anton Chekhov““The older one gets the more convinced one becomes that his Majesty King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this miserable universe.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli