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I’d learned anything from reading Hamlet in my senior-year Shakespeare colloquium, or from consuming ceaseless Nike commercials throughout the midnineties, it was to just frigging do it already.
“I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.”
― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
“Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.”
― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
“Yet each, in itself—this was the uncanny, the anti-organic, the life-denying character of them all—each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular in form. They were too regular, as substance adapted to life never was to this degree—the living principle shuddered at this perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death—Hans Castorp felt he understood now the reason why the builders of antiquity purposely and secretly introduced minute variation from absolute symmetry in their columnar structures.”
― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
“Estimem la ciutat dels beocis i volem que sigui eterna, a desgrat dels pressentiments de Tirèsias, el qual mou, pesarós, el cap i ens prediu que serà destruïda. Però ell és cec i, encara que expert en el crit i el presagi dels ocells, ignora la claror de les estrelles. Prou comprenem, tan bé com l’endeví, que cal sepultar i perdonar, que cal procurar de complir la llei moral, aquesta flameta, dèbil, vacil.lant, tanmateix inapagable. Mai no pararíem de mostrar el sacrifici de la princesa, la lliçó del seu alt exemple. Però, criminosa com és, estulta, turbulenta i rica de males riqueses, que Tebes no sigui, en càstig, destruïda. Perquè hi ha la font, el cel, el riu de tots i pobres beocis que no en tenen gens la culpa.”
― Antígona
― Antígona
“Now, even to me, it seemed ridiculous to concede that I had accumulated substantial debt and a few degrees so that I might contractually labor for the sake of having two free days a week in which to cook a meal in a kitchen I could not actually afford to own, for a small crowd of people my age who spent their lives do- ing the same”
― Three Rooms
― Three Rooms
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