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A força da nossa vontade tem que ver com a vontade da nossa força. Porque a verdade é o que é pela sua justeza, mais o músculo anterior de quem a enuncia. Por isso é tão incompreensível a tolerância na juventude como a intolerância na velhice. Assim, a intolerância é um sinal de juventude de se ser um homem firme como na velhice é um sinal de se ser taralhouco. Assim a democracia não é o triunfo da juventude, a não ser como um terreno é o triunfo do que lá se cultiva. Porque a democracia não é uma “ideologia”, mas o caldo em que todas elas se podem desenvolver. Assim o que melhor a defende é que as ideologias perderam a semente do serem. Mas o que desse modo melhor a define a democracia na sua estabilidade e defesa contra o que a ameace, não é o convívio das várias ideologias, mas a indiferença em face de todas elas. Como na entropia, o regime que nos espera no limite do esperar, está para lá da democracia porque é a ausência de qualquer um. O homem não vai suicidar-se porque a vida sem razão não é razão para que o suicídio valha a pena. Honestamente, o homem vai continuar a morrer de “morte natural”. Mas talvez por inanição. Ou simplesmente de tédio, enquanto não achar um motivo que não o seja. E o tédio não se trata na psiquiatria, mas num sono em que se apodreça de bolor. ↗
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ↗
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for. ↗
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To get faster and better service, ring a bell. It’s the same principal as honking at someone in traffic. People respond well to it, and they seem to really enjoy it. ↗
You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past. ↗
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All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously." At the time Switters had disputed her assertion. Even at seventeen, he was aware that depression could have chemical causes. "The key word here is roots," Maestra had countered. "The roots of depression. For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can e, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass. Even an old tomato like me can recall how painful, scary, and disillusioning that realization was. So, there's a tendency, then, to slip into rage and self-pity, which if indulged, can fester into bouts of depression." "Yeah but Maestra - " "Don't interrupt. Now, unless someone stronger and wiser - a friend, a parent, a novelist, filmmaker, teacher, or musician - can josh us out of it, can elevate us and show us how petty and pompous and monumentally useless it is to take ourselves so seriously, then depression can become a habit, which, in tern, can produce a neurological imprint. Are you with me? Gradually, our brain chemistry becomes conditioned to react to negative stimuli in a particular, predictable way. One thing'll go wrong and it'll automatically switch on its blender and mix us that black cocktail, the ol' doomsday daiquiri, and before we know it, we're soused to the gills from the inside out. Once depression has become electrochemically integrated, it can be extremely difficult to philosophically or psychologically override it; by then it's playing by physical rules, a whole different ball game. That's why Switters my dearest, every time you've shown signs of feeling sorry for yourself, I've played my blues records really loud or read to you from The Horse's Mouth. And that's why when you've exhibited the slightest tendency toward self-importance, I've reminded you that you and me - you and I: excuse me - may be every bit as important as the President or the pope or the biggest prime-time icon in Hollywood, but none of us is much more than a pimple on the ass-end of creation, so let's not get carried away with ourselves. Preventive medicine, boy. It's preventive medicine." "But what about self-esteem?" "Heh! Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory. ↗
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. ↗
