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Bert. H Bert. H said: " Not a good start to learn Spinoza.
Read his other work first.

If you have, come back and read this.
It is perhaps the most genious and elegant piece of philosophy ever written.

Nietzsche wrote better, was a better story teller.
Spinoza gets to it on an Eu
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Omar Khayyám
“And do you think that unto such as you
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew
God gave a secret, and denied it me?
Well, well—what matters it? Believe that, too!”
Omar Khayyâm, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Stephen        King
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”
Stephen King, The Stand

Stephen        King
“But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.”
Stephen King, Dreamcatcher

Arnon Grunberg
“Op de gang staat nog altijd zijn ex te wachten.
'Je bent er nog?' vraagt hij.
'Je ruikt naar rook,' fluistert ze als hij stilstaat om haar een tweede keer te begroeten en meteen ook een tweede keer afscheid van haar te nemen. Hij had bijna haar hand willen pakken om alles nog eens over te doen. 'Je zou ermee stoppen.'
'Waarom fluister je? Ik ben psychiater, wij roken omdat we anders gek zouden worden en omdat we op die manier tenminste nog één ding gemeen hebben met de meeste patiënten: de sigaret.'
'Ik fluister omdat ik je niet wil beschamen. Altijd dezelfde frasen, dezelfde excuses. Hoe kun je mensen weerhouden van zelfdestructie als je er zelf mee bezig bent?'
'Dat is een paradox,' zegt Kadoke. 'Gezondheid, geestelijke gezondheid houdt in dat je die paradoxen leert aanvaarden, dat je ermee leert leven, met het onvolmaakte, ja degene die jou komt weerhouden van zelfdestructie rookt, is dat nou zo erg?”
Arnon Grunberg, Moedervlekken

Philip Roth
“As an artist the nuance is your task. Your task is not to simplify. Even should you choose to write in the simplest way, a la Hemingway, the task remains to impart the nuance, to elucidate the complication, to imply the contradiction. Not to erase the contradiction, not to deny the contradiction, but to see where, within the contradiction, lies the tormented human being. To allow for the chaos, to let it in. You must let it in. Otherwise you produce propaganda, if not for a political party, a political movement, then stupid propaganda for life itself -- for life as it might itself prefer to be publicized.”
Philip Roth, I Married a Communist

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