“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.”
― Beauty
― Beauty
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
― The Everlasting Man
― The Everlasting Man
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