"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present." -Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Dire que le monde ne vaut rien, que cette vie ne vaut rien, et donner pour preuve le mal est absurde, car si cela ne vaut rien, de quoi le mal prive-t-il?"
-Simone Weil

Monday, July 21, 2008

Provocation

"It's as if you were blaming your former principles somehow... It's not they which are to blame, but you yourself. You seem to have forgotten that principles in themselves are nothing, the dead letter... You ought to have been doing things."

- Maria Vasilyevna in Chekhov's play "Uncle Vanya"

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