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Charles Atkins is the author of the blog Neologikon (neologikonblog.wordpress.com), where he writes about the humanities, exploring the connections between philosophy, literature, history, language, and more. Deeply committed to Socrates' ideal of "the examined life," Atkins is a lifelong learner who values engaging in dialogue with past thinkers and ideas in the pursuit of wisdom. To this end, he owns a collection of over 1,500 books in his personal library, which he consults for both research and enjoyment. ...more

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Jude the Obscure

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Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme

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Charles’s Quotes

“To feel anything strongly was to create an abyss between oneself and others who feel strongly perhaps but differently.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

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“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

tags: expression, life, self-expression, writing

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“Nothing was ever so unfamiliar and startling to a man as his own thoughts”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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“Man needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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