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itt we post godlike quotes

"In the struggle between yourself and the world, back the world." (c) le kafka

>> No.5887903

Huxley once said "an intellectual is someone who has found something that interests them more then sex"

>> No.5887912

>>5887903
next time a chick tries to make fun of me for not going out clubbing on the weekend i'm using that, of course i just sit here and argue about aesthetics with skatevideos playing in the other tab, but it sounds good

>> No.5887946

>>5887894
but what does it mean?

>> No.5887990

"Is there anyone in this room who has never said to himself, 'My God, I acted like an absolute shit.' If so, let him stand forth, and we will acclaim a latter day saint. Don't anyone look at me."

-- William S. Burroughs

>> No.5888015

>>5887990
haha, good quote

>> No.5888024

>All I know is that while I’m asleep, I’m never afraid, and I have no hopes, no struggles, no glories — and bless the man who invented sleep, a cloak over all human thought, food that drives away hunger, water that banishes thirst, fire that heats up cold, chill that moderates passion, and, finally, universal currency with which all things can be bought, weight and balance that brings the shepherd and the king, the fool and the wise, to the same level. There’s only one bad thing about sleep, as far as I’ve ever heard, and that is that it resembles death, since there’s very little difference between a sleeping man and a corpse.

-- Sancho Panza

>> No.5888034

>>5888024
shit i might have to read that shit after all even tho spanish is pleb language for fruit pickers and maids not great artists

>> No.5888049

>>5888034
Don Quixote is widely considered as the first modern novel, m8
Try the Grossman translation if you can't read spanish

>> No.5888055

>>5887903
>"an intellectual is someone who has found something that interests them more then sex"
Great quote, but i think its by Edgar Wallace.

>> No.5888073

>>5888034
>Racist
>Likes the proto-socialistic ramblings of Sancho Panza

I don't get it.
Nice quote though.

>> No.5888104

>The strongest steel is forged in the hottest furnace.

Some car ad with Eminem lel.

>> No.5888110

"There was something fascinating in this son of Love and Death" -- Wilde

>> No.5888130

>>5887894
"GOD IS DEAD!!!" - FriedrichWilhelmNietzsche

>> No.5888138

>>5887894
"Either you die a virgin or live long enough to become a whore" --- Sacre Leovour

>> No.5888143

>>5887894
Philosophy is dead. - Stephen "The Man" Hawking

>> No.5888155

Quotes are for people too lazy to think up appropriate things to say themselves. - A non 21st

>> No.5888160

"I am a gigantic faggot. Feed me dicks." - Paradise !!vh7XQhHe/pR

>> No.5888172

>quotes
High schooler detected. It's quotations.

>> No.5888173

>>5887894

>> No.5888190

>>5887894
So Kafka tells us to an hero or just give up?

>> No.5888235

>>5888160
I could have done with you in that other thread, foolish anon :P

>>5888190
No, he is merely stating the inevitability of your loss.

>> No.5888289
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5888289

“I is another.”

“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”

“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

“True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”

“Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”

“My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?”

>> No.5888460

>>5888073
That isn't proto-socialistic.

>> No.5888498

"Genius and learning were incapable of moving a fierce, unlettered soldier, but they had served to elevate and harmonize the soul of Longinus. Without uttering a complaint, he calmly followed the executioner, pitying his unhappy mistress and bestowing comfort upon his afflicted friends." -Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Actually that book is a treasure trove of quotations.

>> No.5888521

>>5888289
I think I read these in the funnies

>> No.5888524

>>5888521
:)

>> No.5888541

>>5888289
>“I is another.”
hahahaha, that's one of the worst translations of anything I've ever read.

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>> No.5888578

>She had left something out, I knew, sealed in a fond female act just as she had made our time a gift.

Joseph McElroy

>> No.5888585

>...personally I find Hitler, Franco, Mussolini fabulously debonaire, admirably magnanimous, infinitely more sympathetic...than 250 Nobel Prize winners.

Louis-Ferdinans Celine

>> No.5888605

>>5888024
I first heard this in a Tarkovsky film, I didn't know it was quote.

>> No.5888612

"When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and
you're life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into
the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that
other people can use.

Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again."

- le dead fruit computer man

>> No.5888617

>>5888585
Maximum edge.

>> No.5888661

>>5888541
hahahaha

>> No.5888678

>>5887894

the Pale Blue Dot speech by Carl Sagan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PN5JJDh78I

Not really /lit/ but I don't exactly see myself posting this on /tv/

>> No.5888681

>>5888678
*tips fedora*

>> No.5888685

>>5888681

>Look at my self-defense cynicism

Okay.

>> No.5888690

>>5888685
*tips fedora*

>> No.5888695

"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell."

Malraux

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5888702

''Sometimes you have to take 1 step forward to go 2 steps backward''

''Why fix what is broken?''

>> No.5889414

>>5887903
>>5888055
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."

http://www.huxley.net/ah/aldoushuxley.html

>> No.5889426

>if it aint broke dont fix it
>dont mess with the formula that works
I try to apply these as often as possible

>> No.5891181

>>5887894
bump

>> No.5891192

>>5888605
which one, do you remember?

>> No.5891233

>>5888024
This is an incredible quote.

>> No.5891287

>>5891192
Solaris I think. I remembered thinking it was great when I heard it, but googling it verbatim only led to Tarkovsky and not Cervantes. Its nice to know

>> No.5891312

>>5889426

>If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Is the patrician way to put it

>> No.5891381

UNATCO Trooper 1: Don't you know what a philanthropist is?
UNATCO Trooper 2: Yeah, like Nietzsche.
UNATCO Trooper 1: No, a philanthropist. Giving to charity.
UNATCO Trooper 2: Oh.

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>>5891381
I'm not big into books.

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>>5888015
When I was a boy in Chicago I attended the Sunday School of a neighborhood Presbyterian church. I recall our Wednesday-night meetings with the simplest nostalgia. We would meet in the basement. There would be a short prayer and a shorter benediction. And we would turn out all the lights and in total darkness hit each other with chairs. - Burroughs

>> No.5891920

>>5891519
that one is bad

>> No.5892088

>>5891920
michael jackson bad or rotting-fish bad?

"Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it."
- Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night

>> No.5892146

>>5892088
I don't understand that one

>> No.5892163

>>5888073

He's waxing in the glory of the thing, not reccomending it's condition in perpetuity. I like having sex. If everyone were having sex all the time and were doing nothing else, nothing would get done. Same with the equity between Queen and Pawn. Too much of a good thing.

>> No.5892181

>>5891519
what is this from? google is of no help

>> No.5892191

>>5888160
pretty damn funny. i kekd

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>>5888024
God bless you based Cervantes

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5892394

True genius here

>> No.5892398

>>5888024
Holy shit this book is so dumb in english, everything about its style is gone.

>> No.5892416

>>5892163
>He's waxing in the glory of the thing, not reccomending it's condition in perpetuity.
He who? Panza or Cervantes?

>> No.5892424

>>5892398
>hurr durr mah minority language
I look forward to reading it in Mandarin.

>> No.5892425

>>5892398
What about this translation
>I only understand that while I’m sleeping I have no fear, or hope, or trouble, or glory; blessed be whoever invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thought, the food that satisfies hunger, the water that quenches thirst, the fire that warms the cold, the cold that cools down ardor, and, finally, the general coin with which all things are bought, the scale and balance that make the shepherd equal to the king, and the simple man equal to the wise. There is only one defect in sleep, or so I’ve heard, and it is that it resembles death, for there is very little difference between a man who is sleeping and a man who is dead.

>> No.5892434

>>5892146
reread it

>> No.5892442

>>5892425
Way better. Pretty impressive. What translation is that?

>> No.5892445

>>5892442
Grossman

>> No.5892446

‘Nietzsche says there are two kinds of people in the world. People who are destined for greatness, like Walt Disney and Hitler and then there’s the rest of us. He called us, ‘the bungled and the botched.’ We get teased we sometimes get close to greatness, but we never get there. We’re the expendable masses. We get pushed in front of trains, take poison aspirin and get gunned down in Dairy Queens.’

-Jack Lucas, “The Fisher King”

>> No.5892454

>>5892442
There's practically no difference.

>> No.5892458

Because no battle is ever won. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

>> No.5892462

>>5892425
Neither any subtlety or elegance at all. The other translation is actually bretty gud imho.

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>>5888702

>> No.5892472

>>5892163
>it's
>automatic sex analogy
Get your head out of the gutter.

>> No.5892479

>>5892462
I understood both just fine.
My Grossman will have to do.

>> No.5892489

>>5892462
I disagree

>> No.5892521

>>5892454
>being this pleb

Anyway, the point is making it sound oldish and pompous.

"blessed be whoever invented sleep" instead of "bless the man who invented sleep" and "the general coin with which all things are bought" instead of "universal currency with which all things can be bought", are, I think, good examples of this objective being better accomplished in the second translation.

Or, even ignoring the fact that the first translation decided to not give a fuck about Cervantes' style of spanish, the second translation just sounds better, don't you agree?

>...for there is very little...
>...since there is very little...

"since" just does not fit right there

>All I know...
>I only understand...

I prefer it.

>> No.5892600

>>5892521
The first is much more immediately understandable. It reads better and faster. I haven't read the work so I don't know if Panza is suppose to sound oldish and pompous when he speaks but the first translation has much better prose divorced from that goal.

>> No.5893254

>>5892146
well, you'll just have to read "Cities of the Red Night". at least the introduction, called "Fore!"

>> No.5893258

>>5892181
no idea. possibly from that collection of audio quotes burroughs did.

"One halloween I opened my front door only to be confronted with a crowd of hideous demons. So I pulled out my gun and shot one, and it was only then I realised I'd shot an eight-year-old."

>> No.5893807

>>5893254
is it just a quote about personal freedom and how muh governments oppress us today?

>> No.5894085

>Certainly we shall all rise again, certainly we shall see each other and shall tell each other with joy and gladness all that has happened!” Alyosha answered, half laughing, half enthusiastic.

>> No.5894099

>>5887894
>"In the struggle between yourself and the world, back the world."

"Cornered, the boy kicked out at the world. The world kicked him back a lot fucking harder." Sir Peter Doherty

>> No.5895216

>The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. - Judge Holden.

>> No.5895237

>>5887894
The point of prayer is not changing the reality outside the one who prays, but to change what is inside.
-Kierkegaard, not an exact quote

>> No.5895297

i love quotations because theyre easily digestible, requiring no effort to read and understand. also theres no annoying context to complicate them. quotations are the shit

>> No.5895301

>>5895297
>this anon has to live his whole life as the miserable retard that he is

>> No.5895313

>>5887894
Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it is too dark to read.

>> No.5895326

"I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

You shall have no other gods before me.

You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

You shall not murder.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” — Exodus 20:1-17

>> No.5895376

>>5895301
>Not understanding satire
>yfw you're both retards