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I used to be an adventurous child. The very first time I got grounded, I got grounded for wandering off to explore. I was five, back in the days when kids used to spend their afternoons playing outside. There was a playground where I was allowed to go to, another playground, a little further away, where I wasn’t, and there was the rest of the town which was completely off limits – so off limits that it went without mention.

Freudyzm i wszystko, co on skaził swoimi groteskowymi implikacjami oraz metodami, wydaje mi się jednym z najohydnieszych oszustw, jakich dopuszcza się człowiek w stosunku do siebie i innych.

V. Nabokov Własnym zdaniem

It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaller as I grew older, train included. Now it’s so small it fits in my head.

Yann Martel Life of Pi

В этой тишине я заснул, ослабев от счастья, о котором писать не умею – и сон мой был полон тобой. 

V. Nabokov Гроза

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Yann Martel Life of Pi