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“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.”
― No Longer Human
― 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.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness.”
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“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”
― One Way Street And Other Writings
― One Way Street And Other Writings
“He who would know the world must first manufacture it.”
― Opus Postumum
― Opus Postumum
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