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доля реакций к просмотрам- 15 авг."Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worse, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most: their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within. It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. Most people do not really want love because love involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Whoever loves becomes humble; those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Ultimately, love demands vulnerability, and it's in that vulnerability that we find our truest selves." – Sigmund Freud @Library2,26%
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- 15 мар."There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself." – Virginia Woolf @Library0,55%
- 1 авг.What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great. – Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle @Library0,54%
- 1 мар.“For years I’ve wanted to live according to everyone else’s morals. I’ve forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth–after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.” – Albert Camus @Library0,44%
- 15 июл."There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that arises in any mind, which cannot be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and explain it for thirty-five years. Something always remains unexpressed, something that remains in the mind forever and with which one dies, without having communicated it to anyone." – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot @Library0,43%
- 1 июн.“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.” – Sylvia Plath @Library0,39%
- 20 июл.10 books to think like a strategic genius: 1) The Art of War by Sun Tzu 2) On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis 3) The Art of Action by Stephen Bungay 4) Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace by Edward Luttwak 5) Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt 6) The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas Schelling 7) The Art of Strategy by Avinash Dixit & Barry Nalebuff 8) The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith 9) 7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer 10) Strategy: A History by Lawrence Freedman @Library0,34%
- 1 июл.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. – Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776) @Library0,33%
- 15 июн.Rule 12: Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street. - 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson @Library0,33%
- 1 апр.How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope. – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness @Library0,32%
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