VRIŁŁER

What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, ‘to kill time’, i.e., to escape boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation (1818/1844)

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors. - Miguel Serrano, C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships (1966/1997)

Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction. The more deeply I immersed myself in physical training, the more I felt that action possessed a directness and authenticity that language could never fully capture. - Yukio Mishima, Sun and Steel (1968)