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"Still taking my sweet time with it. I’m at a quintessential Ellison moment and I’m trying to take it all in. Truly believe this novel is a genuine masterpiece and I feel so lucky to be able to experience it" — Apr 20, 2025 05:57AM
"Still taking my sweet time with it. I’m at a quintessential Ellison moment and I’m trying to take it all in. Truly believe this novel is a genuine masterpiece and I feel so lucky to be able to experience it" — Apr 20, 2025 05:57AM
“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
― Notebooks
― Notebooks
“The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.”
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“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
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“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
― Voyage of the Beagle
― Voyage of the Beagle
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
― The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
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