Desire has no history.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.