"That was something his parents did not understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life..." Metamorphosis and Other Stories
There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten. The Name of The Rose
Every living creature is happy when he fulfills his destiny, that is, when he realizes himself, when he is being that which in truth he is. For this reason, Schlegel, inverting the relationship between pleasure and destiny, said, “We have a genius for what we like.” Genius, man’s superlative gift for doing something, always carries a look of supreme pleasure. What is Philosophy?
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain's Notebook
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