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""Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle...Even democracy ruins itself by excess...it becomes disastrous because the people are not properly equipped by education to select the best rulers.
...The crowd loves flattery, it is so "hungry for honey," that at last the wiliest and most unscrupulous flatterer, calling himself the "protector of the people, rises to supreme power."" — Jan 04, 2026 06:02PM
""Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle...Even democracy ruins itself by excess...it becomes disastrous because the people are not properly equipped by education to select the best rulers.
...The crowd loves flattery, it is so "hungry for honey," that at last the wiliest and most unscrupulous flatterer, calling himself the "protector of the people, rises to supreme power."" — Jan 04, 2026 06:02PM
“Maybe every man has two such women—at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is "moonlight in front of my bed." Marry a white rose, and before long she'll be a grain of sticky rice that's gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by then, is a scarlet beauty mark just over your heart.”
― Love in a Fallen City
― Love in a Fallen City
“Nature has left this tincture in the blood,
That all men would be tyrants if they could.”
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That all men would be tyrants if they could.”
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“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Do not create children until one is ready to be a creator and to spawn creators.” It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future—as though sperm contains your consciousness!”
― When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
― When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
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