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Rainer Maria Rilke
“Around everything that is perfected, the unfinished ascends and intensifies.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Junot Díaz
“The half-life of love is forever.”
Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her
tags: love

“Somewhat paradoxically, the more that Africans and their descendants assimilated cultural materials from colonial society, the less human they became in the minds of the colonists.”
Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

Junot Díaz
“In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but in this world I had a brother who was dying of cancer and a long dark patch of life like a mile of black ice waiting for me up ahead.”
Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

Max Scheler
“Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source of ressentiment. It is as if it whispers continually: “I can forgive everything, but not that you are— that you are what you are—that I am not what you are—indeed that I am not you.” This form of envy strips the opponent of his very existence, for this existence as such is felt to be a “pressure,” a “reproach,” and an unbearable humiliation. In the lives of great men there are always critical periods of instability, in which they alternately envy and try to love those whose merits they cannot but esteem. Only gradually, one of these attitudes will predominate. Here lies the meaning of Goethe’s reflection that “against another’s great merits, there is no remedy but love.”
Max Scheler
tags: envy

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