/lit/ - Literature

>The respectable [man] is one who has allowed himself to be defined by the duties imposed by forces larger than one’s discernible self. The strength necessary to decline any higher proposition of his duties [...] to set aside any concept of value one’s own labor might impart unto the larger world is a Holy epiphany [...] and they will tell you, in the terms capable of them, just as well that there is an inherent duty to every human mind stemming exclusively from the annals of ancestry, and within it is based the most pivotal all-encompassing duties, inherent to one’s self [...] and an imperative that is not merely reserved for those who reside at the bottom, for just as the commoner’s role is to benefit others through toil it is also necessary that those who toil above him [...] should understand that the commoner must be kept to task.
>There is nothing to comprise a man if not what has led to his own creation. [...] As a hound yearns for discipline from its master, just as well does the mind of a man. Bold and aimless reverie imbues an incurable sickness within the natural understanding of things. [...] Perhaps most to blame is the spread of literacy, the folly of an ever-traveling man who mistakes for bliss in some disregard for his own character a muddying and darkening the way of things that long precede him. [...] It is a certain doom to no longer able to bear purpose as one does his hubris. Those who call themselves 'our thinkers' should be put to the sword.
- Giorgio Grimani