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“I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.”
― The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
― The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”
― The Zahir
― The Zahir
“Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe
they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.”
― The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.”
― The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
“But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking?—the entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world—a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors. 'I can bear it no longer,' her spirit says. 'That man at lunch—Hilda—the children.' Oh, heavens, her sob! It's the spirit wailing its destiny, the spirit driven hither, thither, lodging on the diminishing carpets—meagre footholds—shrunken shreds of all the vanishing universe—love, life, faith, husband, children, I know not what splendours and pageantries glimpsed in girlhood. Not for me—not for me.”
― Monday or Tuesday
― Monday or Tuesday
Philosophy
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Art, Theory and Literature of the Grotesque
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What Introverts Read
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