“Since we can't extract beauty from life, let's at least try to extract beauty from not being able to extract beauty from life.”
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“All that I've done, thought or been is a series of submissions, either to a false self that I assumed belonged to me because I expressed myself through it to the outside, or to a weight of circumstances that I supposed was the air I breathed. In this moment of seeing, I suddenly find myself isolated, an exile where I'd always thought I was a citizen. At the heart of my thoughts I wasn't I.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.”
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“Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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