Justin Labelle

“I wish I could say that success turns people into plastic dolls, but the truth is that I don't know any successful people”
― Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

“Thrasymachos. Tell me now, in one word, what shall I be after my death? And mind you be clear and precise. Philalethes. All and nothing! Thrasymachos. I thought so! I gave you a problem, and you solve it by a contradiction. That's a very stale trick. Philalethes. Yes, but you raise transcendental questions, and you expect me to answer them in language that is only made for immanent knowledge. It's no wonder that a contradiction ensues.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“what penalty can frighten a man who is not afraid of death itself?”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“This seems to me absolutely one of the quintessential things about the human condition. It’s what actually distinguishes man from any other animal: living with those who have lived and the companionship of those who are no longer alive. Not necessarily the people that one knew personally, I mean the people perhaps whom one only knows by what they did, or what they left behind, this question of the company of the past, that’s what interests me, and archives are a kind of site in the sense of like an archaeological site.”
― John Berger, Portraits: John Berger on Artists