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Caesar: Life of a Colossus

by Adrian Goldsworthy

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Feb 09, 2010 01:48PM

“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

tags: existentialism, kafka, metamorphosis, trial

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“At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens, he was overwhelmed by a feeling of icy despair, but he was more firmly himself than ever. That was the last shudder of his awakening, the last pains of birth. Immediately he moved on again and began to walk quickly and impatiently, no longer homewards, no longer to his father, no longer looking backwards.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: family, metamorphosis, self-knowledge

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“What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: finding, searching

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“They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.”
― David Rovics

tags: agape, believe, betrayal, break-up, broken, cheat, cheater, cheating, closet, commitment, communication, consent, control, cry, depressed, desire, dirty, divorce, divorced, dream, empowering, end, ended, eros, family, fear, feelings, feminism, forever, freedom, friends, friendship, gone, happiness, heartbreak, heartbroken, hearts, honesty, horny, human, humanity, hurt, infidelity, jealousy, jerk, keep, keeper, keepers, live, lost, lovers, monogamy, nasty, need, nonmonogamy, pain, partners, peace, plural, polyamory, polyandry, polycule, polygamy, polygyny, possessive, quad, queer, real, relationship, respect, romantic, sad, share, sharing, slut, sluts, sorrow, spice, spouse, stay, suffering, sweet, sweethearts, swinging, team, threesome, time, triad, trouble, truth, undercover, unfaithful, unicorn, unity, valentine, valentines, value, wisdom, wishes, yolo

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“I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.”
― Epictetus

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