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“You’re trying to outrace the same demons I am and every day running out of more time. Only the unimaginative fear death when it’s oblivion that cuts deepest. ”

“Perhaps all we want from reading is to return to that age when we could hold a book and cry, to that time between childhood and adolescence, the sweetest era of our lives.”

“That writing eats up your life and brain like heroin. That at the end of your career you have to admit that you, with your own mind and mouth, haven’t said anything about yourself, about the minor events that shaped your life, but always about a reality foreign to you, whose intentions you followed because it promised you salvation, a bidimensional, symbolic salvation that has no meaning.”

If only you could pass into the tactile space of beings other than you but again and again,you were only rolled between the fingertips of literature. Unceasingly,in a thousand voices, it promised you escape,while it robbed you of even the frozen crust of reality that you once had

“It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. Even so, it will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above the idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.”

re read

“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”

i find it funny that fyodor dostoevsky and leo tolstoy hated this author and went as far to have a duel with him

praying the second half is amazing because this been a disappointment and a big miss from jordan peterson so far