[Milan Kundera] And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

Literature, Philosophy, Quotes, Writing, WisdomAliceNovember 6, 2016Milan KunderaComment

[Albert Camus] Existing in the Joke Which We Call Life

We have not overcome our condition, and yet we know it better. We know that we live in contradiction, but we also know that we must refuse this contradiction and do what is needed to reduce it.

Writing, Philosophy, Literature, Quotes, WisdomAliceSeptember 6, 2016Albert Camus, Camus, Existentialism, Life, Existence, AbsurdComment

[David Foster Wallace] On Perfectionism & Ambition

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous, because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.