The nearest I have yet got to answer is that we seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves. Each of us by nature sees the whole world from one point of view with a perspective and a selectiveness peculiar to himself. And even when we build disinterested fantasies, they are saturated with, and limited by, our own psychology. To acquiesce in this particularity on the sensuous level—in other words, not to discount perspective—would be lunacy. We should then believe that the railway line really grew narrower as it receded into the distance. But we want to escape the illusions of perspective on higher levels too. We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own. We are not content to be Leibnitzian monads. We demand windows. Literature as Logos is a series of windows, even of doors. One of the things we feel after reading a great work is “I have got out.” Or from another point of view, “I have got in”; pierced the shell of some other monad and discovered what it is like inside.
E por fim, sobre a escuridão dos telhados lustrosos, a luz fria da manhã tépida raia como um suplício do Apocalipse. É outra vez a noite imensa da claridade que aumenta. E outra vez o horror de sempre — o dia, a vida, a utilidade fictícia, a atividade sem remédio. E outra vez a minha personalidade física, visível, social, transmissível por palavras que não dizem nada, usável pelos gestos dos outros e pela consciência alheia. Sou eu outra vez, tal qual não sou. Com o princípio da luz de trevas que enche de dúvidas cinzentas as frinchas das portas das janelas — tão longe de herméticas, meu Deus! -, vou sentindo que não poderei guardar mais o meu refúgio de estar deitado, de não estar dormindo mas de o poder estar, de ir sonhando, sem saber que há verdade nem realidade, entre um calor fresco de roupas limpas e um desconhecimento, salvo de conforto, da existência do meu corpo. Vou sentindo fugir-me a inconsciência feliz com que estou gozando da minha consciência, o modorrar de animal com q...
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"A similar image appears in the philosophy of Leibniz who considered the world as being made of fundamental substances called 'monads', each of which mirrored the whole universe.
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Leinbiz writes:
Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pound full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pound."