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Piranesi
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The enormity of this task sometimes makes me feel a little dizzy, but as a scientist and an explorer I have a duty to bear witness to the Splendours of the World.
“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how".”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.”
― Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
― Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.”
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“Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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