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“Quid est tempus? Si nemo me queret, scio; si aliqui explicare velim, nescio.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
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“Here is our first rule: Any life you create is yours, and must be cared for. No matter how humble or small, it is still yours, and you must answer for it.”
― Orphans of Chaos
― Orphans of Chaos
“The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.”
― Awake in the Night
― Awake in the Night
“Montrose decided then and there that a full library, one made of old-fashioned paper books with bindings, the kind that cannot be electronically re-edited by anonymous lines of hidden code, was just as much a necessity for a free man as a shooting iron or a printing press.”
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“Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now.”
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From Virgil and the Homeric hymns to Shakespeare to Kant, the classics of Western literature are the fundamental coin of the literary realm. Whether y ...more
Lisa’s 2025 Year in Books
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