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it’s not the large things that send a man to a madhouse . . . death he’s ready for, or murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood . . . no, it’s the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhouse . . . not the death of his
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“It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension
“He feels that when he has found it there will be nothing for him to look for.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“In that case we are standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Were they aware, in the intensity of their embrace, of something slightly ridiculous about this tableau, something almost comical, as someone nearby sneezed violently into a crumpled tissue; as a dirty discarded plastic bottle scuttled along the platform under a breath of wind; as a mechanised billboard on the station wall rotated from an advertisement for hair products to an advertisement for car insurance; as life in its ordinariness and even ugly vulgarity imposed itself everywhere all around them? Or were they in this moment unaware, or something more than unaware—were they somehow invulnerable to, untouched by, vulgarity and ugliness, glancing for a moment into something deeper, something concealed beneath the surface of life, not unreality but a hidden reality: the presence at all times, in all places, of a beautiful world?”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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