“- the spectator who is guided not by the scientific spirit, but by the humane spirit, will eventually curse an art which seems to implant in the souls of men a predilection for belittling and doubt.”
― Aphorisms on Love and Hate
― Aphorisms on Love and Hate
“Character is not what people do, it is the things people do when they think no one is watching.”
― Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too
― Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too
“Science doesn't bow to aesthetics.”
― Vengeful
― Vengeful
“Life, a series of increasing sufferings, flies ever faster towards its end, the most terrible suffering.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
“Funny, for all the elaborate worrying one can do,
Constructing worst-case successes and best-case disasters,
Playing chess against one's future self and imagining we can win when we're not even them yet”
― Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too
Constructing worst-case successes and best-case disasters,
Playing chess against one's future self and imagining we can win when we're not even them yet”
― Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too
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