Status Updates From The Trouble With Being Born

“gogol, in hopes of a ‘regeneration,’ journeys to nazareth and discovers he is as bored there as ‘in a russian railroad station’ — this is what happens to us all when we look outside ourselves for what can exist only inside.”

“a man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of his talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.”

twin!

“the same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever i go: i pretend interest in what matters is nothing to me, i bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. what attracts me is elsewhere, and i don’t know what that elsewhere is.”

goodness

"However disabused one may be, it is impossible to live without any hope at all. We always keep one, unwittingly, and this unconscious hope makes up for all the explicit others we have rejected, exhausted."
"A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of his talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity."