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“When I believed that my existence was such a further fact, I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. Other people are closer. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others.”
― Reasons and Persons
― Reasons and Persons
“—Most people have more needs than wants. That’s why they live the lives they do. But the world is run by those whose wants outstrip their needs.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“the authorities had gone on to inculcate their own classless ideals into students whose presence at the University was in itself a measure of their determination to climb the social ladder by the only means made available in the Welfare State.”
― Ancestral Vices
― Ancestral Vices
“God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundation in a person, or the abyss, you can call it whatever you want,”
― A New Name: Septology VI-VII
― A New Name: Septology VI-VII
“And I do it because it’s unnecessary. For what is kindness but the performance of an act that is both beneficial to another and unrequired?”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
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