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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
– Aldous Huxley
“A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”)
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Always and everywhere, human beings have felt the radical inadequacy of their personal existence, the misery of being their insulated selves and not something else, something wider. —ALDOUS HUXLEY, THE DEVILS OF LONDUN, 1952, APPENDIX
Malcolm Gaskill • The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
He who will fulfill his destiny has neither examples nor ideals, he has nothing dear to him, nothing to comfort him. And one really ought to go this way. People like you and me are certainly very lonely, but we still have each other, we have the secret satisfaction of being different, of revolting, of wanting the unusual. But we must drop that,
... See moreHermann Hesse • Demian: A Novel
To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
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