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he would never weep or beg for rescue, never ask friends for help. Manoj was convinced that success would come to him only if he dared to walk down the difficult path and not the easy one. He was beginning to experience an odd pleasure in
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“The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a “secondary rationalization” of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed.”
― 1984
― 1984
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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