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“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“How can the bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring?”
― Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Sit in a cage and sing?
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring?”
― Songs of Innocence and of Experience
“Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
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