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“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

Book:The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

This book compiles a selection of short stories that delve into a range of topics and storytelling techniques. more

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.”

Source: Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)

“Im as good as dead, but they haven't buried me yet.”

Havens Buried

Author:Walter Moers

“The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds”

Firsts Sound Pieces Mankind Paper Canvas Sheets Marble

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?”

Ifs World Giving Two Mother Dies Father Watches Seeing Madness Assurance Our Father Love Each Other

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation”

“As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour”

I Can Feet Taste Smell Miles Senses Contact Block Progressive

Book:On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry

Source: On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry

“I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life”

People Speak Language Poor Opinion Cutting Tongue Deprived

Book:On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry

Source: On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry

“Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house”

Ifs Dream House Fiction Wonder Poet Madness Waking Reverse Psychosis

Author:William H. Gass

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