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Welcome @dylanoa4!

Dylan is a writer and senior editor at Infinite Books, an author-first publishing house launching in 2025.

He has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel.

Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag him so he can easily find them)

“All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.” 

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Working on writing: Essayful.co

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@dylanoa4 Schopenhauer in The World as Will and Representation mentions that:

“It is only through struggle, suffering, through privation and hardship, that a man truly comes to know his own strength and achieves the heights of his character”

Do you feel like you have gone through this process? If you are comfortable sharing, how was this hardship like for you?

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

Reminds me of The Grand Inquisitor within Brothers Karamazov:

“For nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. But do you see what has happened instead of taking men's freedom from them, You have made it greater than ever! Did You forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil? Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering."

I think suffering gives meaning to life, just as cold gives meaning to warmth. There's a quote that's often wrongly attributed to Dostoevsky, "the darker the night, the brighter the stars," and I think there's a profound truth. Until it's truly been tested, your strength of character is hypothetical. You don't truly know it, and thus don't truly know yourself. That's why C. S. Lewis said that courage is not merely a virtue, but the spine of all virtues. In terms of myself, my own suffering hasn't so much stemmed from life as from myself. It's been self-imposed. I put myself through the fire, often, and often too much. But in this sense, I've been lucky