Life

Books, Photography and Writing, Sums Up My Life

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“The trouble with attempting to master your time, it turns out, is that time ends up mastering you.”

—Marilynne Robinson

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“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for 22 minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”

Malcolm Gladwell, Outliners The Story of Success

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“... I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself.”

Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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“Poor silly Kraus. If he only knew that it is not true, that I have really dreamt nothing about him, that he is nothing to me except for a brief moment, nothing like everything is nothing down here, except the hunger inside and the cold and the rain around.”

Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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‘... Until one day

There will be no more sense in saying: tomorrow.’

Primo Levi, Survival of Auschwitz

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“He does not yet know that it is better to be beaten, because one does not normally die of blows, but one does of exhaustion, and badly, and when one grows aware of it, it is already too late.”

Primo Levi, Survival of Auschwitz

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“Strange, how in some way one always has the impression of being fortunate, how some chance happening, perhaps infinitesimal, stops is crossing the threshold of despair and allows us to live.”

Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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“When it rains we like to cry.”

—Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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Everybody wants something...without having any idea how to obtain it and the really intriguing aspect of the situation is that nobody quite knows how to achieve what he desires. But because I know what I want and what the others are capable of I am completely prepared.

Henry Kissinger, A World Restored 

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For men become myths, not by what they know, nor even by what they achieve, but by the tasks they set for themselves.

Henry Kissinger, A World Restored 

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“...forgot that no power can agree to negotiate about what it considers the condition of its existence.”

—A World Retored, Henry Kissinger

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“...timid men are more likely to be moved to trepidation than to daring in the face of great opportunities.”

Henry Kissinger, A World Restored

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Kissenger argues that peace, when desperately sought is difficult to attain and undermines stability, whereas the acceptance of “legitimacy” helps create stability.

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“Lived there, saw everything, and condemned nothing.”

-Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov

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“He’s one of those who don’t need millions but need to resolve their thought.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“Here is a commandment: seek happiness in sorrow.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov