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“A deep conviction is in itself a strong force, far more powerful than the most logical argumentation. Sometimes one has only to pronounce in a full, round, vibrating chest voice, such as is peculiar to people of conviction, some trifling sentence, and an audience hitherto unconvinced is carried away. Truth is often dumb, particularly a new truth, which is most shy of people, and which has a feeble, hoarse voice.”

— Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible

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nemfrog

"Symbol of the Universal Spirit of Nature." A key to physic. 1810.

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existencenotes

"What encouraged me was the progress within myself, my increasing faith in my own dreams, thoughts and presentiments and my increasing knowledge of the power I possessed within me".

Hermann Hesse, from Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth

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theinvertedwomb

A Coptic magical spell (late 6th-early 7thc. CE) for obtaining a beautiful singing voice. Written for Severos, son of loanna, it invokes Davithe Eleleth, the seven archangels, and the Holy Father

shisasan

“To love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it when we are capable of it. But in the long run, it comes back. You cannot stay away from yourself forever, you have to return, to know whether you really can love. That is the question-whether you can love yourself, and that will be the test.”

— Carl Gustav Jung, Zarathustra Seminars

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“The structure of my relation to the other is of a ‘relation without relation.’ It is a relation in which the other remains absolutely transcendent. I cannot reach the other. I cannot know the other from inside and so on. That is not an obstacle but the condition of love, of friendship, and of war, too, a condition of the relation to the other.”

— Jacques Derrida