You want to make it to the top? There is no top. However high you climb, there is always somebody above you. Mailer wanted to be Hemingway, Hemingway wanted to be Joyce, and Joyce was painfully aware he’d never be another Shakespeare.
~ William Deresiewicz
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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.
~ Albert Camus
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin – the Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era – died at the age of 37, on this day – January 29th in in 1837 in Saint Petersburg.
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
~ Lewis Mumford
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