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Master & Margarita

#bulgakov #lucifer

"Clear writers stand naked before their critics, with all their argumentative blemishes visible."

Philosophers fretted that the world would disappear if they turned their backs but when I closed their finely argued books and switched off the light, it was their worries that disappeared, not the world.

#Kathleen dean Moore

We must love life before loving its meaning. If love of life disappears no meaning can console us.

Dostoevsky

"The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they did not use them much for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies, and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too."

#breakfast of champions #kurt vonnegut

Resilience defines the capacity of the system to assimilate disturbances without crossing a threshold into an alternate state.

#post-carbon #fortitude

“Exile must be a terrible thing,” said Norton sympathetically. “Actually,” said Amalfitano, “now I see it as a natural movement, something that, in it’s way, helps to abolish fate, or what is generally thought of as fate.” “But exile,” said Pelletier, “is full of inconveniences, of skips and breaks that essentially keep recurring and interfere with anything you try to do that’s important.” “That’s just what I mean by abolishing fate,” said Amalfitano. “But again, I beg your pardon.”

#2666 #exile #roberto bolano

#Lush

"INHERITED FAULTS OF PHILOSOPHERS"

ALL PHILOSOPHERS HAVE THE COMMON FAULT THAT THEY START FROM MAN IN HIS PRESENT STATE AND HOPE TO ATTAIN THEIR END BY AN ANALYSIS OF HIM...BUT EVERYTHING THAT THE PHILOSOPHER SAYS ABOUT MAN IS REALLY NOTHING MORE THAN TESTIMONY ABOUT THE MAN OF A VERY LIMITED SPACE OF TIME. A LACK OF THE HISTORICAL SENSE IS THE HEREDITARY FAULT OF ALL PHILOSOPHERS; MANY, INDEED, UNCONSCIOUSLY MISTAKE THE VERY LATEST VARIETY OF MAN, SUCH AS HAS ARISEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN RELIGIONS, CERTAIN POLITICAL EVENTS, FOR THE PERMANENT FORM FROM WHICH ONE MUST SET OUT".

#Human All Too Human #nietzsche

The cruelty in the world? I don't want to see it, I don't want it to touch me. But it is a less apt art of being human to ignore something rather than to change your perspective on it. I have seen the choices of others and then I remember I have choices to make as well, and I would choose not to be cruel. I don't want our world to be filled with a glossary of ignorance or ever come to a page that bids us to close the book.

#cibo matto

cibo

#cibo matto

Forgive me and forget me as soon as possible. I am leaving you for ever. Do not look for me, it is useless. I have become a witch from the grief and calamities that have struck me. It's time for me to go.

Farewell.

Margarita

#The Master and Margarita

"Bachelard admits that every house is first a geometrical object of planes and right angles, but asks his reader to ponder how such rectilinearity so welcomes human complexity, idiosyncrasy, how the house adapts to its inhabitants. Eschewing all simplicities of mere architectural history, mere building detail, he skews his scrutiny, moving through the house not as mere visitor, but as the master penetrator of anthro-cosmology. 'A house that has been experienced is not an inert box', he determines early on. 'Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.' As he listens to the geometry of echoes dignifying- and distinguishing- every old house, every experienced house, he probes the impact of human habitation on geometrical form, and the impact of the form upon human inhabitants."

#Rich #Gaston Bachelard #J.R Stilgoe #poetics of space

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