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Cesare Pavese - "At great periods you have always felt..."

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"At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it; breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950), Italian poet, novelist, translator. The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950, entry for Jan. 1, 1950 (1952, trans. 1961).

Blaise Pascal - 'Our achievements of today are...'

“Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.”

Blaise Pascal - French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher (June 19th - August 19 1662)

Blaise Pascal - 'Men never do evil so...'

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

Blaise Pascal - French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher (June 19th - August 19 1662)

What's wrong with your Husband? - Your Husband is Narcissistic

Your Husband thinks they’re the most important person in the world and couldn’t care less about anyone else.
Your husband definitely has a god complex.
  People with narcissistic personality disorder want total power, lack empathy, and are very arrogant.
   Sound at all familiar?

Garrison Keillor - 'Some luck lies not in...'

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it, you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."

Garrison Keller.

Roland Penrose - 'It's better like that...'

'It's better like that, if you want to kill a picture all you have to do is to hang it beautifully on a nail and spoon you will see nothing of it but the frame. When it's out of place you see it better.'

In Roland Penrose, Picasso: His Life and Work (1958) Explaining why a Renoir in his apartment was hung crooked.

Aristotle - 'Great men are always...'

'Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.'
Aristotle - Greek Philosopher (384BC -322BC)

Socrates - Plato's The Rebublic

For I am at the beginning of this great piece of literature, a conversational debate between 'just' and 'wise' men in tunics. Socrates is the narrator in the battle between his chums, discussing everything and more about the ideal community and the individual within it.

"For in a city of good men there might well be as much competition to avoid power as there now is to get it..." - Socrates narrating in Plato's, The Republik.

Seneca was indeed wise - Can you 'reform' depression?

He says...
"Winter brings on cold weather; and we must shiver. Summer returns, with its heat; and we must sweat. Unseasonable weather upsets the health; and we must fall ill. In certain places we may meet with wild beasts, or with men who are more destructive than any beasts...

And we cannot change this order of things...

It is to this law [of Nature] that our souls must adjust themselves, this they should follow, this they should obey...

That which you cannot reform, it is best to endure." - Son of Seneca the Elder, Roman philosopher and playwright

I ask...
Can you reform Depression?

Alain de Botton - 'Booksellers are the most valuable...'

“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to” Alain De Botton - Born 20th December 1969 in Zurih, Switzerland. Writer.