February 2012
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“Consciousness is nature’s nightmare.”
– Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints (via substancem)
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“There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in...”
– Balthasar Gracian 1601-1658 (via mckateconnelly)
The best reading Churchill did.
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Constant fear and war-mongering.
Sigh
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“Learn what you are, and be such.”
– Pindar (via electricbounce)
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Congress of Erfurt, 1808
At the sack of Weimar, where many of Goethe’s friends lost everything they possessed, his property and perhaps his life were saved by the firmness of Christiane, and afterward by the billeting of Marshal Augureau in his house. On the day after Jena Napoleon entered the town, but, though one of his greatest admirers, Goethe did not meet him until the congress of Erfurt, where the sovereigns...
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“My mission is to kill time, and time’s to kill me in its turn. How...”
– Emil Cioran
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“If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones;...”
– Schopenhauer (via zenhumanism)
