Slothpropos

“To enjoy life, a state of despair is necessary.”
― Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone

“All ideals and all ambitions are a hysteria of prattling women posing as men. No empire justifies breaking a child’s doll. No ideal is worth the sacrifice of a toy train. What empire is useful or what ideal profitable? It’s all humanity, and humanity is always the same — variable but unimprovable, with fluctuations but unprogressive.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I always believed there was a God. I just never did like him.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

“Another resemblance between the world and women. The more sincerely the former and the latter are loved, and the truer and stronger the intention of helping them, and making sacrifices for them, the more certain one may be of not succeeding in any way with them. Hate them, despise them, treat them solely with an eye to one’s own advantages and pleasures—this is the only, the indispensable, means of making progress in love, as in any worldly career, with any person, or society, in any part of life, in any purpose”
― Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone