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“We study better in hostile surroundings than in hospitable ones, a student is always well advised to choose a hostile place of study rather than a hospitable one, for the hospitable place will rob him of the better part of his concentration for his studies, the hostile place on the other hand will allow him total concentration, since he must concentrate on his studies to avoid despairing,”
― The Loser
― The Loser
“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”
― Platform
― Platform
“... uten en ekstrem velvilje overfor livet i sin alminnelighet, en gjennomstrømmende sympati for alt omkring en, ingen litteratur overhodet. Eller med Handkes ord altså: hengivenhet. Hengivenhet til en verden man ikke nødvendigvis ønsker eller klarer å ha så altfor mye med å gjøre. Hengivenhet også til verden som et bedritent sted å være. Hengivenhet, åkkesom, til verden og de mennesker som bebor dem. Hengivenhet hinsides godt og ondt.”
― Der jeg tenker er det alltid mørkt
― Der jeg tenker er det alltid mørkt
“The main point about civility is...the ability to interact with strangers without holding
their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce
some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.”
― Liquid Modernity
their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce
some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.”
― Liquid Modernity
“Whenever I see someone thinking, can I therefore infer from this how he walks? I ask myself, says Oehler, if I see someone walking can I infer how he thinks? No, of course, I may not ask myself this question, for this question is one of those questions that may not be asked because they cannot be asked without being nonsense. But naturally we may not reproach someone who walks, whose walking we have analyzed, for his thinking, before we know his thinking. Just as we may not reproach someone who thinks for his walking before we know his walking. How carelessly this person walks we often think and very often how carelessly this person thinks, and we soon come to realize that this person walks in exactly the same way as he thinks, thinks the same way as he walks. However, we may not ask ourselves how we walk, for then we walk differently from the way we really walk and our walking simply cannot be judged, just as we may not ask ourselves how we think, for then we cannot judge how we think because it is no longer our thinking.”
― Walking: A Novella
― Walking: A Novella
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