Nature does not ask your permission, she has nothing to do with your wishes, and whether you like her laws or dislike them, you are bound to accept her as she is, and consequently all her conclusions. A wall, you see, is a wall ... and so
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“I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“For Lacan, language is a gift as dangerous to humanity as the horse was to the Trojans: it offers itself to our use free of charge, but once we accept it, it colonizes us.”
― How To Read Lacan
― How To Read Lacan
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
― The Road
― The Road
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