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L'humanité est parfois étrange, se dit-il en composant le numéro ; mais malheureusement c'était le plus souvent dans le genre étrange et répugnant, rarement dans le genre étrange et admirable.
Michel Houellebecq • La carte et le territoire (French Edition)
It's a question most of us could do with asking ourselves. I think virtually everyone, except perhaps the very Zen or very old, goes through life haunted to some degree by the feeling that this isn't quite the real thing, not just yet – that soon enough, we'll get everything in working order, get organised, get our personal issues resolved, but th
... See moreOliver Burkeman • What if you never sort your life out?
Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
James Baldwin • Giovanni's Room
But maybe this is who he really is, maybe we go through life never actually being ourselves, mostly never being ourselves. Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
Charles Yu • How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel
Now we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell • A Collection of Essays
Ora lo dico forte in modo che non arrivi a nessuno (considerata la retorica quasi sempre fallimentare), il vero modo per non stare male è prendere coscienza di sé stessi e accettarsi per come si è, sicur... See more
I wanted people to understand that we are a trash fire of a species, but also most people are pretty cool.
Hank Green • A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 2)
Most people want to build a successful business, most people won’t.
Most people want to be the best version of themselves, most people aren’t.
Most people have dreams they want to fulfill, most people won’t.
Everyone wants to quit something, build something, be something, do something. Most people won’t.
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