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January 16 - January 27, 2018
Oh, the endless labor of the intellectual—pouring all this knowledge into the brain through a three-millimeter aperture in the iris.”
Will a dream once dreamed change to accommodate changes in the dreamer’s life?
sometimes, alas, the severity of my illness impairs my perspective.”
The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one’s friends, was the absence of scrutiny—the horror of living an unobserved life.
“Perhaps such herd pleasures are not for everyone,” Nietzsche said, shaking his head.
Hope is the worst of evils because it protracts torment.”
“What is the seal of liberation?—No longer being ashamed in front of oneself!”
All actions are self-directed, all service is self-serving, all love self-loving.”
‘Herr Breuer, why don’t you try to learn what I have to teach rather than prove how much I don’t know?’”
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness.
we are more in love with desire than with the desired!”
“I dream of a love in which two people share a passion to search together for some higher truth. Perhaps I should not call it love. Perhaps it’s real name is friendship.”
Die at the right time!”
“Live when you live! Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life! If one does not live in the right time, then one can never die at the right time.”
“Yes, eternal recurrence means that every time you choose an action you must be willing to choose it for all eternity. And it is the same for every action not made, every stillborn thought, every choice avoided. And all unlived life will remain bulging inside you, unlived through all eternity. And the unheeded voice of your conscience will cry out to you forever.”
This moment exists forever, and you, alone, are your only audience.”
She had not chosen her life but instead was witness to the same scenes playing themselves endlessly.
“Nothing is everything! In order to grow strong you must first sink your roots deep into nothingness and learn to face your loneliest loneliness.”
We must love our fate.
‘Choose the right enemy.’
Perhaps we’re all fellow sufferers unable to see each other’s truth.”
