Sensitive, caring, responsive people - these are the empaths. Their language reflects their inner experience.
“Nothing is less relevant to a work of art than the judgments of other people.”
― Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary
― Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary
“You are as much as you know, and a wise person can do anything. A person without knowledge is a world in darkness.”
― How to Use Your Enemies
― How to Use Your Enemies
“Deal with people from whom you can learn. Let friendly interchange be a school of erudition, and conversation, civilized instruction. Make friends your teachers, joining learning’s usefulness and conversation’s pleasure.”
― How to Use Your Enemies
― How to Use Your Enemies
“The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness”
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
“Wandering blindly in the dark plush of the gardens, the young people meet at last in an empty clearing, under the last purple glow of the setting sun, over a pond that has been growing muddy for years; on a rotting balustrade, somewhere at the back gate of the world, they find themselves again in pre-existence, a life long past, in attitudes of a distant age; they sob and plead, rise to promises never to be fulfilled, and, climbing up the steps of exaltation, reach summits and climaxes beyond which there is only death and the numbness of nameless delight.”
― The Fictions of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
― The Fictions of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
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