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Je ne suis rien, je sais, mais je compose mon rien avec un petit morceau de tout
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“The workers and peasants constitute the vast majority of the population. And does not “democracy” mean carrying out the will of the majority? How then can one be a democrat, and yet be opposed to the “dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry”?”

- V. I. Lenin

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To Bertrand Russell: Christmas 1913

Dear Russell,

Many thanks for your letter. As you see, I am at home and unfortunately once again quite unproductive. I only hope the ideas will start to flow again when I go back into isolation. (I am staying here another eight or ten days.) As regards your American lecture course, there was naturally no need at all, as far as I am concerned, to mention my name. But - as you wish -. Here I feel different everyday. Sometimes things inside me are in such a ferment that I think I’m going mad: then the next day I’m apathetic again. But deep inside me there’s a perceptual seething, like the bottom of a geyser, and I keep hoping that things will come to an eruption once and for all, so that I can turn into a different person. I can’t write you anything about logic today. Perhaps you regard this thinking about myself as a waste of time - but how can I be a logician before I am a human being! Far the most important thing is to come to terms with myself!

Yours ever,  Ludwig Wittgenstein 

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Before I fall in love again 1. I want us to be friends. Which means, I want to be able to eat my favourite cheese crust pizza with you, while having cheese all over my face and even in my hair, without feeling embarrassed or concerned about it. I want to be comfortable with you, I want to be okay about being messy, irritating, embarrassing, disgusting, petty while with you. Because I will be petty when I see my ex best friend post a happy picture and I will be messy during my finals and I will be embarrassing when I meet your parents for I suck at meeting parents. I want to be okay with being the way I am and the only way to be okay is to know that you’re okay with me being things other than beautiful, graceful and composed at all times. 2. I want to be able to have long and passionate conversations with you not just about existential things but also about what went wrong in the ending of that book and how kids are affected by media and how tomato basil combination always works. I want to have conversations where we may not always have the same views but our fundamental values always fall in place. I want to talk to you about the beauty of the stars but I also want to talk to you about the disgusting mentality behind certain societal norms. 3. I want to see how consistent your actions are with your words. I don’t want to fall for love letters or poems, for sweet Instagram captions or long birthday texts, I want to fall in love with you showing up on time and keeping your promises. 4. I want to take it slow. I want our story to work out in years, not months. I want to respect time and space this time. 5. I want to make sure I am not seeking love from you for the lack of love I have for myself. I want to make sure you aren’t a void I am filling in, you are not an alternative to the things I can’t give myself. I want to make sure you are not doing the same. 6. I want to work out with my insecurities and fears from the past. I don’t want to project them on you, I don’t want to subject you to the doubts, suspicion and anger I carry from the people I have known in the past. 7. Before I fall in love again, I want to make a mattress with you. Of understanding and respect and trust. So when we fall, it doesn’t hurt.

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I have swords as well as islands

Caligula’s remark to his banished sisters Agrippina the Younger and Livilla.

In this case Caligula was rather lenient since the two women were involved in a conspiracy against the emperor. I guess it was kind of last warning to them.

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