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Stefan Zweig
“The true essence of freedom is that it can never restrict the freedom of another.”
Stefan Zweig, Montaigne

Douglas R. Hofstadter
“We mortals are condemned not to speak at that level of no information loss. We necessarily simplify, and indeed, vastly so. But that sacrifice is also our glory. Drastic simplification is what allows us to reduce situations to their bare bones, to discover abstract essences, to put our fingers on what matters, to understand phenomena at amazingly high levels, to survive reliably in this world, and to formulate literature, art, music, and science.”
Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

Tim Krabbé
“signs. Oh, to have been a rider then. Because after the finish all the suffering turns to memories of pleasure, and the greater the suffering, the greater the pleasure. That is Nature’s payback to riders for the homage they pay her by suffering. Velvet pillows, safari parks, sunglasses: people have become woolly mice. They still have bodies that can walk for five days and four nights through a desert of snow, without food, but they accept praise for having taken a one-hour bicycle ride. ‘Good for you.’ Instead of expressing their gratitude for the rain by getting wet, people walk around with umbrellas. Nature is an old lady with few suitors these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms she rewards passionately.”
Tim Krabbé, The Rider

Stefan Zweig
“It is true: Montaigne achieved little else in his life aside from posing the question: “How should I live?”
Stefan Zweig, Montaigne

Franz Kafka
“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”
Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

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