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“Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.”
― When Nietzsche Wept
― When Nietzsche Wept
“Ο ελεύθερος άνθρωπος που γνωρίζει τον εαυτό του είναι γενναιόδωρος, αλληλέγγυος, ευγενικός και ικανοποιείται εξίσου όταν δίνει όπως και όταν παίρνει. Γι'αυτό, κάθε φορά που συναντάς ανθρώπους που κοιτάζουν μόνο την πάρτη τους, μην τους μισείς. Αρκετά προβλήματα έχουν με τον εαυτό τους.”
― Déjame que te cuente
― Déjame que te cuente
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― The Garden of Eden
― The Garden of Eden
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.
And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.
And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Kafka on the Shore
And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.
And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Kafka on the Shore
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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