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But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.
“He might be ragged and cold or even starving, but so long as he could read, think and watch for meteors, he was, as he said, free in his own mind.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
“Asia, Europe are mere nooks of the universe. Every ocean is a drop in the universe: Mount Athos a spadeful of earth in the universe. The whole of present time is a pin-prick of eternity. All things are tiny, quickly changed, evanescent.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“Look at the thousands of flocks and herds, the thousands of human ceremonies, every sort of voyage in storm or calm, the range of creation, combination, and extinction.
Consider too the lives once lived by others long before you, the lives that will be lived after you, the lives lived now among foreign tribes; and how many have never even heard your name, how many will very soon forget it, how many may praise you now but quickly turn to blame.
Reflect that neither memory nor fame, nor anything else at all, has any importance worth thinking of.”
― Meditations
Consider too the lives once lived by others long before you, the lives that will be lived after you, the lives lived now among foreign tribes; and how many have never even heard your name, how many will very soon forget it, how many may praise you now but quickly turn to blame.
Reflect that neither memory nor fame, nor anything else at all, has any importance worth thinking of.”
― Meditations
“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
― Notebooks, 1935-1951
― Notebooks, 1935-1951
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