John Hodgman book The Areas of My Expertise
September 11, 2007
The Areas of My Expertise (2005), Appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“And the soul, my soul at least, longs for something else, not absorption, not quietude, not peace, not appeasement, it longs ever to approach and never to arrive, it longs for the never-ending longing, for an eternal hope which is eternally renewed but never wholly fulfilled. And together with all this, it longs for an eternal lack of something and an eternal suffering. A suffering, a pain, thanks to which it grows without ceasing in consciousness and longing. Do not write upon the gate of heaven that sentence which Dante placed over the threshold of hell, Lasciate ogni speranza! [Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate: All hope abandon, ye who enter in] Do not destroy time!”
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
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