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“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,
but exhaust the limits of the possible.”
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but exhaust the limits of the possible.”
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
― Rights of Man
― Rights of Man
“It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.”
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Derek’s 2025 Year in Books
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