In Libro Veritas
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Many texts and essays on Philosophy, Psychology, Litterature and Arts on http://anthologialitt.com
""We must have our bread." But what is our bread ? Is it baker's bread ? Methinks it should be very home-made bread. I have tasted but little bread in my life. ... Of bread that nourished the brain and the heart, scarcely any." H.D. Thoreau anthologialitt.com/post/h-d-thore…
"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know." Eric Hoffer Passionate State of Mind
"A book should open old wounds, even inflict new ones. A book should be a danger." Emil Cioran Drawn_and_Quartered
"My greatest discovery so far: The world is a tragedy to those who feel, a comedy to those who think. Most people neither think nor feel." Patricia Highsmith Journal, May 1942
« Ma découverte la plus importante jusqu’aujourd’hui : la vie est une tragédie pour ceux qui ressentent les choses et une comédie pour ceux qui pensent. La plupart des gens ne font ni l’un ni l’autre. » Patricia Highsmith, Journal, mai 1942. (Tr. Bernard Turle)
Schopenhauer on the lack of individuality to be found in the common man:
The Terminology of Books (De librorum vocabulis) from Isidore of Seville Etymologiae VI.Xiii Isidore tells us a book is called 'liber' because scrolls were made (joined together) from the inner bark (liber) of trees. Thus, copyists were called 'librarius' after the bark of trees
"Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master's chaise. Do what you love. Know your own bone ; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still." H.D. Thoreau anthologialitt.com/post/h-d-thore…
