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“There is nothing better in life than commitment to personal development and lifelong learning.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“In 2004, Jacques Derrida said that a change was under way. Torture damages the inflicter as well as the inflicted. It’s no coincidence that one of the Abu Ghraib torturers came to the military directly from a job as a chicken processor. It might be slow, Derrida said, but eventually the spectacle of our abuse of animals will be intolerable to our sense of who we are.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;
I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.
To you, your name also;
Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“I almost never go out. I suppose everyone tries to ignore the passing of time: some people by doing a lot, being in California one year and Japan the next; or there’s my way—making every day and every year exactly the same. Probably neither works.”
― Philip Larkin

“The duty of doing what you love fuels a fuller sense of being.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Я начал читать экзистенциальные книжки еще в старших классах школы и продолжил читать в колледже. У Сартра и Камю я нашел описание борьбы индивидуума, не вписывавшегося в окружающую среду. Герман Гессе писал о поиске святого в хаосе и боли. Экзистенциалисты не верили в познание жизни только посредством разума. Они знакомили меня с концепцией испытания отчуждением и отказом от оправдания чужих надежд ради жизни, полной уникального смысла.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“Lack of culture equals to parallel lives, however through art, oneness, sanity and sense of belonging is restored.”
― Unarine Ramaru