Wild Man Dan

“phone is no longer simply a method of communicating with others, but a thread of hope, a way of believing that you’re not alone, a way of showing others how important you are.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

“Is he a poet? Or a genuine one? An emancipator? Or a subjugator? A good one? Or an evil one?”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None - Illustrated

“Verily, too early died that Hebrew whom the preachers of slow death honour: and to many hath it proved a calamity that he died too early.   As yet had he known only tears, and the melancholy of the Hebrews, together with the hatred of the good and just—the Hebrew Jesus: then was he seized with the longing for death.   Had he but remained in the wilderness, and far from the good and just! Then, perhaps, would he have learned to live, and love the earth—and laughter also!   Believe it, my brethren! He died too early; he himself would have disavowed his doctrine had he attained to my age! Noble enough was he to disavow!”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None - Illustrated

“Knowing someone’s name meant knowing that the other person was a human being and not “the enemy.” Knowing someone’s name transformed him into a unique and special individual, with a past and a future, with ancestors and possibly descendants, a person who has known triumphs and failures. People are their names; they’re proud of them; they repeat them thousands of times in their lifetime and identify with them. It’s the first word they learn after “Daddy” and “Mummy.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone