Uxküll

“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed extreme courage and extreme kindness. Otherwise it is not rising to the heights but falling down. We show greatness, not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness.”
― Marquess of Halifax

“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”
― Walter Benjamin, One Way Street And Other Writings