When it was announced that the Library was the repository of all books, the initial response was one of unrestrained joy. Men everywhere felt they were lords of a secret and still intact treasure. There was no individual or world problem for which an eloquent solution did not exist in some hexagon.

- The Library Of Babel

When a detective solves a case of murder, he doesn't jump blindly to the conclusion. First, he finds the usual suspects. Same applies to diagnosis

'الدنيا سيجارة وكاس'

الدنيا صبح والأُغنية مال سهرة
بس بما أنّ اني سهران من البارحة🍻

Your love lives in me – you are mirrored in that love, and you see your face reflected in me: nothing of this is mine, it is all yours.

- The King Of The Dark Chamber

But really you do not see the eye.
And nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

In other words:

The eye cannot see itself

- True Detective

It's not consciousness that's making us sick, it's imagination.

It's our ability to imagine—in our heads—a better, more utopian world than ours, and then compare our reality to the utopia of our mind. This is what underlies despair. As George Carlin said: "Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."

I should say, I never liked this quote. It doesn't feel right, it feels too romantic and tortured artist-ish to me: it makes the entirety of humanity like a tortured romantic artist who's "too perfect and pure for our crooked world."

خُذِ الحَيَاةَ كما جاءتْكَ مبتسمًا
في كفِّها الغارُ أَو في كفِّها العَدَمُ

وارقصْ على الوردِ والأَشواكِ متَّئِدًا
غنَّتْ لكَ الطَّيرُ أَو غنَّتْ لكَ الرُّجُمُ

واعملْ كما تأمُرُ الدُّنيا بلا مَضَضٍ
والجمْ شُعوركَ فيها إنَّها صَنَمُ

فمنْ تأَلَّمَ لمْ تُرْحَمْ مَضَاضَتَهُ
ومنْ تجلَّدَ لم تهزأ بهِ القِمَمُ

هذي سعادَةُ دُنيانا فكنْ رجلًا
إنْ شئْتَها أَبَدَ الآباد يَبْتَسِمُ

- أبو القاسم الشابي