every stranger whose laugh you could recognize anywhere, is a step you take on the path to recognizing yourself. proof that you can survive what doesn’t go according to plan. hold on to the memories of the you who loved them— the best souvenir you’ll have
'At Bjerkreim in Dalane, the leader of the farmers went even further in his opposition to the king when they refused to pay and he stated that "Frederick is king in Denmark, but I am king in Bjerkreim."'
I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels... See more
The great 19th-century Russians wrote under censorship, exile, threat of execution, gambling debts, epilepsy. Dostoevsky faced a firing squad before his sentence was commuted. You don't get Notes from Underground from a comfortable life.
Joyce was half-blind, impoverished, in exile. Proust was sickly and isolated. Kafka was Kafka. Woolf battled... See more