Justin Labelle

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets us fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet. This explains many things, and among them the fact that everyone measures us with his own standard—generally about as long as a tailor's tape, and we have to put up with it: as also that no one will allow us to be taller than himself—a supposition which is once for all taken for granted.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“Only that which is innate is genuine and will hold water; and every man who wants to achieve something, whether in practical life, in literature, or in art, must follow the rules without knowing them.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“Only fever and poetry provoke visions.
Only love and memory.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Romantic Dogs

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