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The scholiast who annotated Virgil was wrong. Understanding is what wearies us most of all. To live is to not think.
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Fernando Pessoa,
The Book of Disquiet
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...as we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we are left with only Homer and Virgil, perhaps with only Homer alone....as we advance in life these things fall off one by one , and I suspect we are left with only Homer and Virgil, perhaps with only Homer alone....more
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―
Thomas Jefferson