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“People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.”
― Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
― Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
“If any help was going to arrive to lift me out of my misery, it would come from the dark side of my personality.”
― A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self
― A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self
“It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.”
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“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that! I'm always gonna love you, no matter what. No matter what happens. You're my son and you're my blood. You're the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself, you ain't gonna have a life.”
― Rocky Balboa
― Rocky Balboa
“The rebel defies
more than he denies. Originally, at least, he does not suppress God; he merely talks to Him as an equal.
But it is not a polite dialogue. It is a polemic animated by the desire to conquer. The slave begins by
demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. His insurrection
against his condition becomes an unlimited campaign against the heavens for the purpose of bringing
back a captive king who will first be dethroned and finally condemned to death. Human rebellion ends in
metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.
When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the
justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall
of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the
dominion of man.”
― The Rebel
more than he denies. Originally, at least, he does not suppress God; he merely talks to Him as an equal.
But it is not a polite dialogue. It is a polemic animated by the desire to conquer. The slave begins by
demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. His insurrection
against his condition becomes an unlimited campaign against the heavens for the purpose of bringing
back a captive king who will first be dethroned and finally condemned to death. Human rebellion ends in
metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.
When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the
justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall
of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the
dominion of man.”
― The Rebel
Farah’s 2025 Year in Books
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