I recently read Jean-Paul Sartre's book Nausea. It was the greatest book I have read in a long long time, he writes so well and really gets to the heart of the humanity in the story, bringing out the underlying feelings of his character like no-one I have read before. His writing style (in this […]
Some quotes on modesty:
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. - William Hazlitt
I will not […]
Sometimes I find it so hard to sit down and write. The ideas of what to type just don't materialize in my head; I can go looking for all the stimulus I know of and still I can't pin anything down that I can work into a post. You would think that only doing this […]
This week I went to see Darren Aronofsky's new film The Fountain. I don't generally look at reviews before I go to see a film, but when I saw the BBC Movies website had only given it two stars I found myself looking around to see if the film I had be so eagerly awaiting […]