Sublime
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Amid the generalized physical collapse that is old age, the voice and the eyes bear painfully indisputable witness to the persistence of character, aspirations, and desires, everything that constitutes a human personality.
Michel Houellebecq • The Map and the Territory (Vintage International)
or as if he knew anything.
Epictetus • The Manual For Living
But perhaps the desire of the thing called fame will torment thee.- See how soon everything is forgotten, and look at the chaos of infinite time on each side of the present, and the emptiness of applause, and the changeableness and want of judgement in those who pretend to give praise, and the narrowness of the space within which it is circumscribe
... See moreMarcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca • Stoic Six Pack (Illustrated): Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long.
Seneca • On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
Je me souviens qu'un jour tu développais cette idée que l'homme ne tombe pas tout d'un coup dans la mort, qu'il s'y achemine pas à pas, que nous mourons chaque jour, car chaque jour nous dérobe une portion de vie[929], et alors même que nous croissons, la somme de nos années décroît.
Sénèque • Sénèque : Oeuvres complètes illustrées (31 titres annotés et complétés) (French Edition)
the most universal rationalism always stumbles eventually on the irrational of human thought.
Albert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
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Michael Dean • 2 cards