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“Let us always search for the impossible, since that is our destiny, and let us search for it by way of the useless, since no path goes by any other way, but let us rise to the consciousness that nothing we search for can be found, and that nothing along the way deserves a fond kiss or memory.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“I’ve created various personalities within. I constantly create personalities. Each of my dreams, as soon as I start dreaming it, is immediately incarnated in another person, who is then the one dreaming it, and not I.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Never when controversy avoided the subjects which are large and important enough to kindle enthusiasm was the mind of a people stirred up from its foundations, and the impulse given which raised even persons of the most ordinary intellect to something of the dignity of thinking beings.”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
“A ship may seem to be an object whose purpose is to sail, but no, its purpose is to reach a port.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“To read is to dream, guided by someone else’s hand.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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Ah, the Nobel Prize! The decision of a jury of aristocratic Swedes who, since 1901, have awarded the prize to seven of their countrymen and one of the ...more
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