Connor McLean

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“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

tags: desire, dust, human-life, man

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“Travel is very useful and it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our own journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It’s a novel, simply a fictitious narrative.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

tags: awareness, classic-quotes, essence, existence, humanity, mankind, self-awareness, self-definition

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“Lust and learning,” Katherine once said. “That’s really all there is, isn’t it?”
― John Williams, Stoner

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“Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, just a fictitious narrative. Littre says so and he's never wrong.
And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. You just have to close your eyes.
It's on the other side of life.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

tags: esoteric-wisdom, inspirational, philosophical

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