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07/11/2003 11:37:00 AM · #1 |
I read a book a few months ago, written by Primo Levi, a Holocaust survivor. The book is called "If this is a man".
From this book, I memorized a passage. It is by far the wisest words I have heard in years...
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: They derive from our humon condition which is opposed to everything infinite. Our ever-insufficient knowledge of the future opposes it.
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07/11/2003 11:56:01 AM · #2 |
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07/11/2003 12:24:11 PM · #3 |
Blimey! A quote from a holocaust survivor being used to help DPC 'sufferers' - now this is getting serious! ;)
I like this too:
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Message edited by author 2003-07-11 12:30:39.
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07/11/2003 12:33:41 PM · #4 |
One of the rules for one of the other websites I frequent is "Perspective must be attained". I guess that would be applicable here as well.
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07/11/2003 12:52:18 PM · #5 |
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07/11/2003 01:08:27 PM · #6 |
Some Demotivation...
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07/11/2003 02:32:09 PM · #7 |
I know some people who try so hard to be unhappy, they nearly succeed!
Originally posted by SharQ:
I read a book a few months ago, written by Primo Levi, a Holocaust survivor. The book is called "If this is a man".
From this book, I memorized a passage. It is by far the wisest words I have heard in years...
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: They derive from our humon condition which is opposed to everything infinite. Our ever-insufficient knowledge of the future opposes it.
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07/11/2003 07:12:00 PM · #8 |
I think it is realizable, but it is not a continuos state.
When I am at a state of perfect happiness it seems like I am floating 10cm above the ground, time slows down but my mind goes on at normal speed. Every feeling is strong, every action like speeking an moving seems to go in slow motion.
This takes about 5 seconds real time. When I realize I am in this state it is over. (No drugs or sex involved!)
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