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"I’m only through the forward by the GOAT, Kevin Gilmartin, and the introduction, but I wish this had been available 23 years ago when I went through the academy…" — Nov 15, 2025 10:55AM
"I’m only through the forward by the GOAT, Kevin Gilmartin, and the introduction, but I wish this had been available 23 years ago when I went through the academy…" — Nov 15, 2025 10:55AM
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"Finished A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. Now I need to go back and read Dubliners. Anyway, this is my second time through the novel and it was like reading a new book. I don’t remember the first time I read it. My primary goal was to understand Joyce’s aesthetic theory, but alas here it is incomplete. Cribs Aquinas and Plato. Best to start by asking “metaphor or marketplace?”" — Nov 02, 2025 07:12AM
"Finished A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. Now I need to go back and read Dubliners. Anyway, this is my second time through the novel and it was like reading a new book. I don’t remember the first time I read it. My primary goal was to understand Joyce’s aesthetic theory, but alas here it is incomplete. Cribs Aquinas and Plato. Best to start by asking “metaphor or marketplace?”" — Nov 02, 2025 07:12AM
“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.”
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“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
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“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
― Timequake
― Timequake
“The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.”
― In Search of Lost Time
― In Search of Lost Time
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