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All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
Steppenwolf
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
The Elephant Vanishes
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.
Kafka on the Shore
Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.
The Book of Disquiet
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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