Lit posts

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In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. Thus, logotherapy sees in responsibleness the very essence of human existence.

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Hae Sung: What if this is a past life as well, and we are already something else to each other in our next life? Who do you think we are then?
Nora: I don’t know.
Hae Sung: Me neither... See you then.

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The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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Three of them lay there quietly for a while. They already felt close enough that there was no need to speak. How nice it was just to lie there in silence.

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Have you reason? I have. Why don’t you use it? When it performs its proper office, what more do you require?

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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

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Before there were computers, there were algorithms. But now that there are computers, there are even more algorithms, and algorithms lie at the heart of computing.

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To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality.

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As a scientist, you must embrace the inconstancy of knowledge.

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We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us.

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We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?

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For you a thousand times over!

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When a man consorts much with a people, if they are honest, and he no knave, love will grow up atwixt them.

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She took the little girl in her arms, and both of them flew in brightness and joy above the earth, very, very high, and up there was neither cold, nor hunger, nor fear—they were with God.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

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If you're dealing with clever people you've got to be clever yourself.