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"all-encompassing. the narrator's only way out is through his mind, reciting to his jailer. My only path away from this book is to put it down. Yet I sit idly like John of Patmos, hoping the angel is translating properly, unable to look away." — Sep 18, 2025 03:33PM
"all-encompassing. the narrator's only way out is through his mind, reciting to his jailer. My only path away from this book is to put it down. Yet I sit idly like John of Patmos, hoping the angel is translating properly, unable to look away." — Sep 18, 2025 03:33PM
The ideas that underpin our modern world—meritocracy, equality before the law, property rights, religious toleration, modern secular education, sound finances and so on—were championed, consolidated, codified and geographically extended by
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“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Our Town
― Our Town
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“The life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it and maintains itself in it. It wins its truth only when, in utter dismemberment, it finds itself…Spirit is this power only by looking the negative in the face, and tarrying with it.”
― Phenomenology of Spirit
― Phenomenology of Spirit
“I am a human being, and thus nothing human is alien to me.”
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“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
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