Stefan

“Fools and young men prate about everything being possible for a man. That, however, is a great error. Spiritually speaking, everything is possible, but in the world of the finite there is much which is not possible.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“Temporal bandwidth” is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar “Δt” considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you’re having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even—as Slothrop now—what you’re doing here,”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

“She is dearer to me than life. But her suffering comes from within, and only she can rid herself of it. For she is free.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit and Three Other Plays

“He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary