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“I am I and my circumstance, and if I don't save it I don't save myself.”
Meditations on Quixote • Jose Ortega y Gasset“What is love? For the rabble love is a kind of variety, a transient vulgarity; the rabble's conception of love is best found in their obscene ditties, in prostitution and in the foul idioms they use when they are halfway sober, such as "shoving the donkey's foreleg in mud," or "putting dust on the head." My love for her, however, was of a totally different kind. I knew her from ancient times—strange slanted eyes, a narrow, half-open mouth, a subdued quiet voice. She was the embodiment of all my distant, painful memories among which I sought what I was deprived of, what belonged to me but somehow I was denied. Was I deprived forever?”
The Blind Owl • Sadegh Hedayat“The vine bears three bunches of grapes: the first is that of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of violence.”
Fragment • Epictetus“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”
The Law of Love and the Law of Violence • Leo Tolstoy““Children learn and develop in multiple ways, but the most common is by imitation.””
Surrounded by Idiots • Thomas Erikson