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"I been fascinated by the legendary mythology of the stars, their astrological influences. I accept them, in fact, at their face value as the imperishable companions and fatal accomplices of our tragic human drama." — Jul 20, 2024 01:02AM
"I been fascinated by the legendary mythology of the stars, their astrological influences. I accept them, in fact, at their face value as the imperishable companions and fatal accomplices of our tragic human drama." — Jul 20, 2024 01:02AM
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![Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1532614109i/285217._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“The human race is a monotonous thing. Most people work most of the time in order to live, and the little freedom they have left over frightens them so, that they will do anything to get rid of it. Oh, the regimentation of mankind!”
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![Jesse Ball](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1451924788i/285976._UY200_CR1,0,200,200_.jpg)
“First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.”
― The Way Through Doors
― The Way Through Doors
![Andrei Tarkovsky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651636647i/16014._UY200_CR26,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Let everything that's been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.”
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![Albert Camus](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1686463588i/957894._UY200_CR46,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
![Marcel Proust](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1649882562i/233619._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.”
― Within a Budding Grove, Part 2
― Within a Budding Grove, Part 2
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