And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?---Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground There are certain people of whom it is difficult to say anything which will at once throw them into relief—in other words, describe them graphically in their typical characteristics. These are they who are generally known as “commonplace people,” and this class comprises, of course, the immense majority of mankind. Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself. For instance, when the whole essence of an ordinary person’s nature lies in his perpetual and unchangeable commonplaceness; and when in spite of all his endeavours to do something out of the common, this person ends, eventually, by remaining in his unbroken line of routine—. I think such an individual really does become a type of hi
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NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
Hope
To be human is to be a miracle of evolution conscious of its own miraculousness — a consciousness beautiful and bittersweet, for we have paid for it with a parallel awareness not only of our fundamental improbability but of our staggering fragility, of how physiologically precarious our survival is and how psychologically vulnerable our sanity. To make that awareness bearable, we have evolved a singular faculty that might just be the crowning miracle of our consciousness: hope.--
Erich Fromm
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Live on KEXP-Thievery Corporation , London Grammar and more
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The Mother of All Concerts---Metallica's Historic 1991 Moscow Concert
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Fatboy Slim ft. Bootsy Collins - Weapon Of Choice
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Portishead - Roads (Live From The Roseland Ballroom, New York, USA / 24 July 1997)
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Best Music Video ever--Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (Revisited) Full Length
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A tu vera (de la pelÃcula "El balcón de la luna")
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Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow -Nick Cave and Bad Seeds
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Hania Rani live at Invalides, in Paris, France for Cercle
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Factory Records - From Joy Division To Happy Mondays
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