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"Perhaps 5, actually. Also, I have read this before -- not *this* book, but books very much like it." Mar 19, 2015 02:01PM

 
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Sappho
“For me, neither the honey nor the bee.”
Sappho

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”
Rumi

David Foster Wallace
“Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.”
David Foster Wallace

G.K. Chesterton
“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind of one man; but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. It does much more than that, it tells us the truth about its readers; and, oddly enough, it tells us this all the more the more cynical and immoral be the motive of its manufacture. The more dishonest a book is as a book the more honest it is as a public document. A sincere novel exhibits the simplicity of one particular man; an insincere novel exhibits the simplicity of mankind. The pedantic decisions and definable readjustments of man may be found in scrolls and statute books and scriptures; but men's basic assumptions and everlasting energies are to be found in penny dreadfuls and halfpenny novelettes. Thus a man, like many men of real culture in our day, might learn from good literature nothing except the power to appreciate good literature. But from bad literature he might learn to govern empires and look over the map of mankind.”
G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

Friedrich Nietzsche
“First, one has the difficulty of emancipating oneself from one’s chains; and, ultimately, one has to emancipate oneself from this emancipation too.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

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