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“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realise what we've been through and understand what it means. ”
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“It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.”
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“The historian is a prophet looking backwards.”
― Philosophical Fragments
― Philosophical Fragments
“It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer”
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