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“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way”
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“Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.”
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“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”
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“Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable.”
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“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
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Nina’s 2025 Year in Books
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