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Richard Yates
“In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.”
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

Voltaire
“Clearly,” I said, “we should choose not to have good sense, if that good sense contributes to our misery.”

Everyone agreed with me, and yet I found no one who wanted to accept the bargain of becoming ignorant in order to become content. From this I concluded that though we greatly value happiness, we place even greater value on reason.

But yet, upon reflection, it seems that to prefer reason to happiness is to be quite insane.”
Voltaire

Ibn ʿArabi
“Deliver us, O Allah, from the Sea of Names.”
Ibn Arabi

Charlotte Joko Beck
“Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.”
Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special: A Zen Buddhist Guide to Awakening Through Daily Life's Feelings, Relationships, and Work

J.H. Donner
“... het vaderland, waar men het verschil tussen literatuur en vertelkunst nog altijd niet wil zien en waar men leest, alsof Joyce nooit bestaan had.”
J.H. Donner

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