"What else am I afraid of? Death. Fearing something that is inescapable might not be the most productive use of time. Maybe it isn’t even death that I fear but more the fear of the unknown."
Your heart is only good for pumping your blood, says my brain. I am the source of both what you feel and what you think.
It's better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for.
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Kafka did not have much respect for what was for most of his life the imperial capital of his country, increasingly coming to a halt as Habsburg bureaucracy reached gargantuan proportions in the years leading up to the First World War. His contempt was widespread at the time, with Vienna often explicitly or implicitly compared to Berlin -and coming up short: smaller, less progressive, less exciting. For Kafka, it was an 'absterbendes Riesendorf' -a 'decaying mammoth village', or literally a 'dying' one.
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You know what I've been thinking since? I've been thinking that you are my country. Is that a strange thing to say? Without you, I don't have a home in this world; I am a felled tree, my roots severed all round; you can topple me with the touch of a finger.
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"If you ever need me, you know my number. If you don't want to have anything to do with me, call Maxim or Dimitri. I instructed them that in case you ever call, they are to do what you ask, and not share with me. Please, give a call to Varya from time to time. She misses you. Take care, malysh."
'Won't you tell me what I really am', Franz pleads with Felice, and goes on to answer his own question: 'A difficult case. Am I a circus rider on 2 horses? Alas, I am no rider, but lie prostrate on the ground.'
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Brahma said, ‘I just created the world. It is neither beautiful nor ugly. It is neither enjoyable nor tormenting. It is simply there. It all depends on what you choose to do with it. If you get caught up with the delusions of the mind, this is the way it is. If you use the mind to reach enlightenment, then you are beyond this. It is all up to the individual.’
Adiyogi said, ‘But you created the mind too, which is the source of all trouble.’
Brahma replied, ‘What you do with the mind is up to you. The choice is yours.’
"Marry a woman who scares you a little, one who makes you think what the hell is she doing with a jackass like me?"
Just as Tetlock says of the best forecasters, it is not what they think, but how they think. The best forecasters are high in active open-mindedness. They are also extremely curious, and don't merely consider contrary ideas, they proactively cross disciplines looking for them. "Depth can be inadequate without breadth," wrote Jonathan Baron, the psychologist who developed measurements of active open-mindedness.
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Each form of procrastination typically includes a "mariana illusion," where we filter reality through a false hope that the delay won't hurt anyone and the future will be better because we can later control what we delay today. In the world of the consummate procrastinator, this rarely happens.
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Every woman I meet tries to murder me! Everybody's after my Chainsaw heart! What about my heart?! Denji's! Does nobody want that? Huh?!
Finish what you’ve started!
Finish what you’ve started!
Finish what you’ve started!
"To love, to be loved, what happiness! And yet how the glamour of this pales in comparison with the tormenting bliss of worshipping a woman who makes a plaything out of us, of being the slave of a beautiful tyrant who treads us pitilessly underfoot. Even Samson, the hero, the giant, again put himself into the hands of Delilah, even after she had betrayed him, and again she betrayed him, and the Philistines bound him and put out his eyes which until the very end he kept fixed, drunken with rage and love, upon the beautiful betrayer."
"What do you think he said to my sister and me when our mother died? ' I would much rather have lost the two of you than her.'
