"To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead."

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Source : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

Norman O. Brown

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“Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.”
“The greatest good on this earth is God”
“Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.”

Source : Mo Yan (2013). “Big Breasts and Wide Hips: A Novel”, p.467, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Politics is about winning. If you don?t win, you don?t get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.”
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

Source : "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.
“Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ... every time the government uses its money or its power to favor this group or that ... the net result is such a web of supports, subsidies, interventions and controls that it is almost impossible for a nation to find its way back into a dynamic system of really free enterprise.”
“Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.”
“To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdalaâ€â€”the home of the fight-or-flight reflexâ€”â€œis as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them,”

Source : "The Prisoner of Stress" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

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