Essayful

The open notebook of @DylanoA4

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis was right, it all boils down to courage, all of it

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Dostoevsky, the only psychologist from whom I’ve anything to learn.
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
― Albert Einstein

The real nineteenth century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
― Albert Camus

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The beauty of routine is that you don’t waste your day in negotiation

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In 1847, Søren Kierkegaard wrote to his sister-in-law, who was too depressed to get out of bed

He had one piece of advice

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Multitasking is a great way to get an hour’s work done in two hours

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Taking it easy feels like empty unless you’ve done something hard, there’s no joy in getting warm unless you’ve known the cold, the vitality of life is found in the contrasts, it’s by heightening the contrasts that you deepen life, that you live more

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Cormac McCarthy, straight in my veins

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I love Werner Herzog so much

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Smart man says nothing is a miracle. I say everything is.

— Norm Macdonald, 2017

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When G. K. Chesterton said "gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder" he was giving you the formula by the way

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

When G. K. Chesterton said "gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder" he was giving you the formula by the way

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C. S. Lewis opened his Narnia series with a message to his goddaughter

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Every morning I wake up and think, good, another 24 hours’ pipe-smoking.

— J.R.R. Tolkien, in a 1966 interview

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

All is reps. There’s no substitution for reps. 10,000 hours is just a metaphor for reps. Chess is reps. Painting is reps. Thinking, wisdom, even prayer is reps. There’s a reason the French say ‘apprendre par cœur’ (to learn by heart). Repetition itself is the stairway to heaven

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The secret to life is deceptively simple: it’s having something to look forward to, always, doesn’t even matter how small or mundane

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You are stuck because you are still. Walkers are granted access to ideas that sitters simply aren't. Some places are only reachable on foot, it is true of geography and it is true of genius. The Muse favors the man in motion

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Not fair that Van Gogh could also write like that

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C. S. Lewis, maybe the greatest paragraph ever written on love

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The reading crisis gets a thousand times more depressing when you dig into what the dwindling population of readers are actually reading

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Nobody who thinks in terms of "posting content" or "personal brand" will ever create anything great

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— Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864