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Literature – which is art married to thought, and realization untainted by reality – seems to me the end towards which all human effort would have to strive, if it were truly human and not just a welling up of our animal self. To express ...more
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Yuval Noah Harari
“Perhaps if more people were aware of the First Wave and Second Wave extinctions, they’d be less nonchalant about the Third Wave they are part of.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari
“Perhaps if more people were aware of the First Wave and Second Wave extinctions, they’d be less nonchalant about the Third Wave they are part of. If we knew how many species we’ve already eradicated, we might be more motivated to protect those that still survive.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Jean-Paul Sartre
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

Fernando Pessoa
“Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his consciousness. By virtue of his gaze, he has all hills, and by virtue of his position, all valleys. The sun that gilds the summits will gild them more for him than for someone at the top who must endure the bright light; and the palace perched high in the woods will be more beautiful for those who see it from the valley than for those who, imprisoned in its rooms, forget it. I”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Leo Tolstoy
“By faith it appears that in order to understand the meaning of life I must renounce my reason, the very thing for which alone a meaning is required. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

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