ITT: favorite quotes

That's good ;)

Dosto makes me realize I have no idea what's good or even desirable.

>The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.
—C.S. Lewis

that's a good one

Really jogs your noggin

What is freedom then?

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A flag.

an illusion, it doesn't exist

>Baudrillard
That's been well-known for centuries.

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a thought without words

Yeah, better to be a mill satisfied than a stuart dissatisfied

elaborate

None of these answers are very satisfying...

'Happiness is a new idea in Europe'
-- Louis de Saint-Just

>a not so interesting quote sometimes achieves a certain something when who said it is taken into consideration..

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True. And honestly, it's not even the kind of sentiment I associate with him. But fuck it, he said it and it's still a good line.

Thread needs more Nietzsche in it.

they're pretty bad desu

pleb

Why doesn't Kierkegaard's wiki say anything about him playing basketball???

I smell bullshit.

'If you fail to grasp life, it will elude you. If you do grasp it, it will elude you anyway.'
--Sarah Bakewell
>in her book on Montaigne

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Be virtuous and a failure when you can't be virtuous and a success. Integrity is worth more than success, be it material or whatever.

'The heart wants what it wants or else it doesn't care.'
--Emily Dickinson
>selected Letters

>Integrity is worth more than success
why?

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'That which does not destroy me strengthens me.' -Nietzsche
>a classic

Ask yourself that when you've 'succeeded'

It isn't. It's a shitty meme thought up by unsuccesful people looking for excuses.
>I may be a highschool dropout but at least I have integrity!

Can you guys explain me this one? I don't get it

the duke is harsh but fair

I mean...Mills was pretty successful. And Dostoyevsky is basically saying the same thing here
And it basically captures Nietzsche's idea on human struggle too. Sure the idea is misused as an excuse on our mongolian basket weaving consortium, but that doesn't mean it's without merit or truth.

If you can't act on what you think, then frustration=torture. It's an interesting quote.

But why a frustrated mind would be superior? I'm confused

Great quote. I'm also annoyed by how when people are comparing two or more things, they try to rank them and turn it into a competition. Such an american thing to do.

>Such an american thing to do
true

That's an interesting part of it. It is addressed to all who have good thoughts (and he takes nothing away from good thinkers) but, if you cannot act, write, whatever, this mind with superior thoughts is going to suffer.

Frustrated minds aren't necessarily superior, and superior minds aren't necessarily frustrated. But for a superior mind paralysis or inactivity can be tortuous.

Now I'm starting to see it, thank you

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Oh shit, I thought it said Baudelaire first. Didn't he write an essay on this exact topic?

Imagine if you locked Einstein or Mozart in a cage without materials

Surely they wouldn't be superior minds

once they were at their peak development of superiority, surely your mind is not superior if you could not intuit these were the implications we were getting at

“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt”

Critique of Pure Reason

>Such an american thing to do.
Did you just rank things in a comparison, user?

We didn't ban shoes though

I'm pretty sure it's illegal to have a gun on a school campus, they don't even let me smoke.

e-reading.club/bookreader.php/140562/Rice_-_The_Claiming_Of_Sleeping_Beauty.pdf

everything the prince says..

I've only heard Rimbaud's version, “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

Is the sublime, not a feature of the beautiful? Is the sublime, not the feeling beauty offers? Is sublimity not beautiful? Cmon Kant... get your shit together

Dosto makes being a christ-cuck look good. I honestly envy his convictions and pity myself for my own inability to believe anything.

Oh, you're right, i confuse the two.

an instant classic

Seems to have been a fairly commonly held idea.

nietzsche woke af

It can be yours if you move to the panhandle of TX friend. Go for those star filled skies, dreamer.

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fuck

My sweet naughty little fuckbird,
Here is another note to buy pretty drawers or stockings or garters. Buy whorish drawers, love, and be sure you sprinkle the legs of them with some nice scent and also discolour them just a little behind.
You seem anxious to know how I received your letter which you say is worse than mine. How is it worse than mine, love? Yes, it is worse in one part or two. I mean the part where you say what you will do with your tongue (I don’t mean sucking me off) and in that lovely word you write so big and underline, you little blackguard. It is thrilling to hear that word (and one or two others you have not written) on a girl’s lips. But I wish you spoke of yourself and not of me. Write me a long long letter, full of that and other things, about yourself, darling. You know now how to give me a cockstand. Tell me the smallest things about yourself so long as they are obscene and secret and filthy. Write nothing else. Let every sentence be full of dirty immodest words and sounds. They are all lovely to hear and to see on paper even but the dirtiest are the most beautiful.
The two parts of your body which do dirty things are the loveliest to me. I prefer your arse, darling, to your bubbies because it does such a dirty thing. I love your cunt not so much because it is the part I block but because it does another dirty thing. I could lie frigging all day looking at the divine word you wrote and at the thing you said you would do with your tongue. I wish I could hear your lips spluttering those heavenly exciting filthy words, see your mouth making dirty sounds and noises, feel your body wriggling under me, hear and smell the dirty fat girlish farts going pop pop out of your pretty bare girlish bum and fuck fuck fuck fuck my naughty little hot fuckbird’s cunt for ever.
I am happy now, because my little whore tells me she wants me to roger her arseways and wants me to fuck her mouth and wants to unbutton me and pull out my mickey and suck it off like a teat. More and dirtier than this she wants to do, my little naked fucker, my naughty wriggling little frigger, my sweet dirty little farter.
Goodnight, my little cuntie I am going to lie down and pull at myself till I come. Write more and dirtier, darling. Tickle your little cockey while you write to make you say worse and worse. Write the dirty words big and underline them and kiss them and hold them for a moment to your sweet hot cunt, darling, and also pull up your dress a moment and hold them in under your dear little farting bum. Do more if you wish and send the letter then to me, my darling brown-arsed fuckbird.
- James "Jim" Joyce

>redpilled

Really fires my neurons...

>being this retarded

once you're here, you're here forever

oh

>my darling brown-arsed fuckbird.
what did he mean by this

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>also discolour them just a little behind
he wants her to fart so much that shit particles stain her asshole and panties

That's real?

>Tickle your little cockey
what in hell did he mean by this

was nora a trap?

eh thats not exactly what it means

I don't want that to be me

rly gets to me

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but venice is a fuckin cesspool

I got a feels from this

There's something kind of sad about these, that they lived in time with such constrained social etiquette and manners that a silly letter like this would actually get them super horny. If a girl sent me something like this I'd lose my shit laughing

>when joyce's secret dirty smut letters are more Veeky Forums than anything you've ever earnestly written

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"His life had been reduced to a simplistic blur, like the trails in the air left by people on fire."

-Dennis Cooper in the novel Frisk

>tfw living in the society of the spectacle

>If a girl sent me something like this I'd lose my shit laughing
and this is why you're alone, user

>not appreciating your girl's perversions

t. female representative of lit

>“I’m very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch”
Woody Allen

I know Giacomo... I know.

>2017
>Woody is still funny
God bless him.

based

"go fuck yourself" - ignatius of loyola

He's not talking about the perversions though. The text of the letter itself is ridiculous, like a preteen who just started watching porn and gets a boner from the word "cunt." It would have been genuinely scandalous in their time, but it just hasn't aged well.