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Book cover for Adam Bede
if I held it the highest vocation of the novelist to represent things as they never have been and never will be. Then, of course, I might refashion life and character entirely after my own liking; I might select the most unexceptionable ...more
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Immanuel Kant
“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”
Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns

David Foster Wallace
“To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.”
David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

Hannah Arendt
“Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.”
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

David Foster Wallace
“The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.”
David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

Immanuel Kant
“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
Immanuel Kant

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