The Life, the Universe, and Everything
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Excruciating pain, yet I haven’t reached that emotional threshold…
It is my umpteenth attempt to get to grips with my life. I do procrastinate. I do associate more pain with looking for a job than abstaining from it. Well, starting tomorrow… Right!
“Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen Leute.”
The Force That Shapes Your Life
Anthony [...]
“Our imagination flies — we are its shadow on the earth.” (Vladimir Nabokov)
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
“Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
“I [...]
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
‘But it’s my mind, isn’t it? Then what’s the problem?’
‘The problem is that your mind isn’t actually yours.’
‘Then whose is it?’
‘It’s not possible to say that it is anybody’s at all. Or what it’s like and where it is. All these concepts arise within it, that is, it precedes [...]
from “Monumental Propaganda” by Vladimir Voinovich
They say that an individual’s mental capabilities are determined by the weight of his brain. But a big brain can only be contained in a beg head. Turgenev had a big head. And his brain, accordingly, weighed as much as two loaves of bread. Lenin had an even bigger head, [...]
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