Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
The Problem of Anxiety (1925)
1920s
“Without destiny to guide him, he was lost in a vast, whistling darkness. Any direction he might choose was purely abitary; it would make no more sense, offer no more hope, than would sitting still.”
— Matthew Stover, book Blade of Tyshalle
(XII.7) Del Rey, p. 426
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
Context: He had no idea what he should do now. Without destiny to guide him, he was lost in a vast, whistling darkness. Any direction he might choose was purely abitary; it would make no more sense, offer no more hope, than would sitting still. Which offered neither sense nor hope at all.
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Context: Is there a thought can fill the human mind
More pure, more vast, more generous, more refined
Than that which guides the enlightened patriot's toll:
Not he, whose view is bounded by his soil;
Not he, whose narrow heart can only shrine
The land — the people that he calleth mine;
Not he, who to set up that land on high,
Will make whole nations bleed, whole nations die;
Not he, who, calling that land's rights his pride
Trampleth the rights of all the earth beside;
No: — He it is, the just, the generous soul!
Who owneth brotherhood with either pole,
Stretches from realm to realm his spacious mind,
And guards the weal of all the human kind,
Holds freedom's banner o'er the earth unfurl'd
And stands the guardian patriot of a world!
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Source: 1960s–1970s, The Constitution of Liberty (1960), p. 6.
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Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
Fiction, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)
David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 21
“There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.”
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Account of 8 October 1918.
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