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“Zonder geweld zal het niet gaan,' concludeert hij, 'want de groten hebben de macht, maar de kleinen zijn talrijk en tegen de mieren is geen tijger bestand. De mieren zijn echter blind, terwijl de mens beeft voor de dood, want al gelooft hij ook, weten doet hij niet. Men heeft ons de aarde gegeven als een boomgaard waarin het oogsten ons eigen werk zou zijn, dus heeft de mens het gelijkzijn in handen. En toch zullen veel kleinen Allah zien voordat al het werk gedaan is.”
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“What man
can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is
dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed,
Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.”
― Letters from a Stoic
can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is
dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed,
Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.”
― Letters from a Stoic
“Ook drong het niet tot haar door dat ze een keer gedacht had, dat als Port eerder doodging dan zij, ze niet werkelijk zou geloven dat hij dood was, maar eerder dat hij op de een of andere manier in zichzelf was teruggegaan, om daar te blijven, en dat hij zich nooit meer van haar bewust zou zijn, zodat in werkelijkheid zij het was die opgehouden had te bestaan, tenministe in belangrijke mate. Zij zou degene zijn die gedeeltelijk het rijk van de dood was ingegaan, terwijl hij zou voortbestaan, een verdriet binnen in haar, een deur die ongeopend was gebleven, een reddeloos verloren kans. (p. 173-174)”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
“On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.”
― Wall and Piece
― Wall and Piece
“if you are unwilling to endure your own suffering even for an hour, and continually forestall all possible misfortune, if you regard as deserving of annihilation, any suffering and pain generally as evil, as detestable, and as blots on existence, well, you have then, besides your religion of compassion, yet another religion in your heart (and this is perhaps the mother of the former)-the religion of smug ease. Ah, how little you know of the happiness of man, you comfortable and good-natured ones! For happiness and misfortune are brother and sister, and twins, who grow tall together, or, as with you, remain small together!”
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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