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To the Castle and Back: Reflections on My Strange Life as a Fairy-Tale Hero

by Václav Havel

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“He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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“Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince.
"So that I may forget," replied the tippler.
"Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him.
"Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head.
"Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him.
"Ashamed of drinking!”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: drinking, sad, shame

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“We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

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“You don’t understand death, you learn to acquiesce in death.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

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“Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life’s negative aspects into something positive or constructive. In other words, what matters is to make the best of any given situation.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: life-lessons

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