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“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.”
― Parerga and Paralipomena
― Parerga and Paralipomena
“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
Kawyar’s 2025 Year in Books
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