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“I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.”
― The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
― The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
“We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.”
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“The Socialists have found good the equality, and bad the inequality. Good the servants and bad the tyrants. I crossed the threshold of good and evil in order to live my life intensely. I live today and can not await tomorrow. The wait is of peoples and of humanity, so could not be my affair.”
― The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore
― The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore
“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“What, I wondered, did he mean by “societyâ€�? The plural of human beings? Where was the substance of this thing called “societyâ€�? I had spent my whole life thinkng that society must certainly be something powerful, harsh and severe, but to hear Horiki talk made the words “Don’t you mean yourself?â€� come to the tip of my tongue. But I held the words back, reluctant to anger him.
‘Society won’t stand for it.�
‘It’s not society. You’re the one who won’t stand for it - right?�
‘If you do such a thing society will make you suffer for it�
‘It’s not society. It’s you, isn’t it?�
‘Before you know it, you’ll be ostracized by society.�
‘It’s not society. You’re going to do the ostracizing, aren’t you?�
Words, words of every kind went flitting through my head. “Know thy particular fearsomeness, thy knavery, cunning and witchcraft!� What I said, however, as I wiped the perspiration from my face with a handkerchief was merely, “You’ve put me in a cold sweat!� I smiled.
From then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual?”
― No Longer Human
‘Society won’t stand for it.�
‘It’s not society. You’re the one who won’t stand for it - right?�
‘If you do such a thing society will make you suffer for it�
‘It’s not society. It’s you, isn’t it?�
‘Before you know it, you’ll be ostracized by society.�
‘It’s not society. You’re going to do the ostracizing, aren’t you?�
Words, words of every kind went flitting through my head. “Know thy particular fearsomeness, thy knavery, cunning and witchcraft!� What I said, however, as I wiped the perspiration from my face with a handkerchief was merely, “You’ve put me in a cold sweat!� I smiled.
From then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual?”
― No Longer Human
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