The Aleph

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen very quickly.” Excerpt From: Gladwell, Malcolm. “The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

15 August. Agonies in bed towards morning. Saw only solution in jumping out the window.

Psychiatric definitions of hikikomori culture seem to me to be quite elusive, since they do not address the crucial problem that is implied in the behaviour of so many Japanese kids. Such behaviour should not be seen simply as the symptom of pathology, but should be understood as a form of adjustment to the anthropological and social mutation that is underway, as an answer to the unbearable stress of competition, mental exploitation, and precarity. […] Considering the stress of competition provoked by the Japanese economic context, one may argue that hikikomori behaviour is a healthy reaction to the frantic, precarious life created by late capitalism: a fully understandable withdrawal from hell.

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

To read is to find meanings, and to find meanings is to name them; but these named meanings are swept toward other names, names call to each other, reassemble, and their grouping calls for further naming: I name, I unname, I rename, so the text passes.