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Quote by Lev Grossman

“It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.”

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Lev Grossman is an American novelist, best known for his fantasy novel series 'The Magicians'. His works blend literary depth with rich imagination, earning him widespread acclaim. more

“My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.”

Should Firsts Mean Different Seems Law Life Is Fall Periods Daughter Thirds Dust Strings Meaningless Fourth Lacking Brushes Dictionary In-laws Camels Third Place Daughter In Law

Book:Either/ Or

Source: Either/ Or

“Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.”

Mean Ends Action Evil Conditions Dangerous Movement Reflection Capacity Transforming Lead In Retrograde

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.”

Want Should Enough Care Pain Despair Boat Submit Healed

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.”

People Ifs Men Needs Persons Able Spiritual Dies Religious Christianity Opinion Despair Endure Folks Related Isolation Testament New Testament Assembly Herds Congregation

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.”

Philosophy Window Sells Court Favors Theology Charm Offering

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.”

People May Shows Certain Mouths Notion

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.”

Author:Alphonse Karr

“On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss”

Edges Abyss

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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