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What does it mean to be quixotic? Was there any historical figure you'd describe as quixotic?

>> No.14595300

>>14595293
Emperor Norton

>> No.14595364

>>14595293
There is a fictional character that is quixotic. Don Quixote.

>> No.14595372

>>14595293
Bernie Sanders.

>> No.14595373

Bernie Sanders

>> No.14595374

Bernie Sanders

>> No.14595416

that's totally kafkaesque, bro

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>>14595293
Yes, Hitler.

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Christ.

>> No.14595521

>>14595293
Bernie Hitler

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>> No.14595531

>>14595300
/fpbp

>> No.14595537

>>14595293
To strive for a highly unrealistic or impossible goal, knowing and understanding it to be impossible, but striving for it anyways as you believe nothing else to be worthwhile.
Ex: “To dream the Impossible Dream”

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>> No.14595745

A character who lives and acts by an ideal no matter how crazy it is, is Quixotic.

>> No.14595763

https://youtu.be/sspiWqii5vw

>> No.14596057

>>14595293
Napoleon Bonaparte when he returned from Elba. The truth is we'll never know what he was thinking, or what his true opinions were on the chances he thought he had, but it seems almost certain that at the end of his life he wasn't acting of his own volition anymore, that he himself was obeying the IMAGE of Napoleon Bonaparte and what he would have done, and to a surprisingly large degree it worked and he wasn't, say, arrested immediately in the first town he came to. At that point it would be fair to say that Napoleon ceased to be a simple historical figure and became an era-defining myth instead

>> No.14596070

>>14595293
Unironically my diary desu

>> No.14596166

>>14595537
So... Hitler?

>> No.14596205

Wtf I love Hitler now!

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>> No.14596249

Hitler wasn't quixotic, he was more of a vedic mythological character. As for Napoleon, I'd also not say he resembled the Quixote since his return was less of a personal form of tragicomical insanity but rather an avatar of the romantic movement