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I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach you again.
-Arthur miller ( the crucible )
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“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
— Aldous Huxley
"It is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive, instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue inside your own head."
- David Foster Wallace
The art of observing without allowing the compulsion of analysis and judgement take over immediately is the highest form of human intellect.
You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy. You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage.
Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Sally Muir, Dogs
Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations
Jenny Bloomfield, Cats in a Meadow