Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man; if they existed, his life would only dissolve in the boundless. To become strong, a man’s life needs the limitations ordained by duty and voluntarily accepted. The individual attains significance as a free spirit only by surrounding himself with these limitations and by determining for himself what his duty is.
All my feelings seem dead, except for the drive to live. They shall not destroy me.
Not until people start seeing typos eating out of their garbage cans at night will they regret hunting proofreaders almost to extinction.
And so the balance is maintained: well-fed nations wallow in neurosis and excesses, while people plagued with suffering, as we are now, may rely on numbness and apathy to help see them through – if not for that I’d be weeping morning, noon, and night.
The scary thing about having insomnia is not the hours lost for sleeping but the re-run of thoughts you’ve been trying to forget.
Can’t you see how fortunate you are? You have worn yourself out through ceaseless striving, you have filled your muscles with pain and anguish. And what have you achieved but to bring yourself one day nearer to the end of your days?
What is a bookshelf other than a treasure chest for a curious mind?
Beautiful to the eye, comely to the touch, mesmerising in abundance.
Be gay, do crime.
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Judge me when you become perfect.
If you’re testing my waters, you better know how to swim.
I don’t care who I lose anymore. I choose me. I got stuff to do.
One becomes like that which is in one’s mind – this is the everlasting secret”;.
This also cometh forth from.
Over prepare then go with the flow.
His disciples said to him, “When will the kingdom come?” Jesus said, “It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying ‘here it is’ or ‘there it is.’ Rather, the kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.
We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.
People change. Memories don’t.
Adam is expelled from Paradise as a punishment, whereas Enkidu is implored to leave it as a necessary step towards progress to a higher form of existence.