A self-imposed double obligation was formed, firstly to use my skills for the betterment of other people, and secondly to justify the existence of my mother. I was beginning to put shape on my future.
“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“History never repeats itself, historians do.”
― The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case
― The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case
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