The open notebook of @DylanoA4
Joined February 2023
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“I have come to the conclusion that it is better to live what one really is and accept the difficulties that arise as a result—because avoidance is much worse.”
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“I have come to the conclusion that it is better to live what one really is and accept the difficulties that arise as a result—because avoidance is much worse.”
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Essayful retweeted
Jun 4
Jungian psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz on the dangers of wasting your creativity
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"One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power."
Jun 4
Jungian psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz on the dangers of wasting your creativity
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Favourable conditions never come
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C. S. Lewis with maybe the most important paragraph ever written for people with creative ambitions
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David Foster Wallace, 1996
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Sure I killed my dreams and wasted my precious time on earth by organizing my life around the hallucinated opinions of people who never even thought about me at all, but at least I never felt embarrassed
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— Albert Camus, 1951
Mar 13
The world needs a kind of reverse covid-19 pandemic that forces everyone to go outside and socialize
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All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
— Blaise Pascal, 1670
Mar 10
It speaks to the strangeness of our culture, that when I just now saw a dude sitting on a park bench doing absolutely nothing except smiling and looking around, I thought to myself "hell yeah brother"
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“Two monks were arguing about a flag. One said, ‘The flag is moving.’ The other said, ‘The wind is moving.’ The sixth patriarch, Zeno, happened to be passing by. He told them, ‘Not the wind, not the flag; the mind is moving.’”
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Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.
— Jack London, 1903
Feb 5
Write it down. You will forget it. You think you won't, but you will. Write it down.
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Werner Herzog, read read read
Jan 28
Read enough literature and you soon begin to see it everywhere, you're walking around and it's right there on the surface of everyday life, superimposed text, as if reality had citations you couldn't see before
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Jan 23
The world has gotten so insane, sanity is now a skill
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Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
— José Ortega y Gasset, 1957
Jan 14
I recently quit watching all short form video and it feels like I've taken my foot off the neck of my imagination
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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
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C. S. Lewis opened his Narnia series with a message to his goddaughter
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PATHS ARE MADE BY WALKING
— FRANZ KAFKA
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana, 1905
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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort... It is to them a recreation to play with burdens that would crush all others.
— Nietzsche, 1895
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Vincent van Goat
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