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"Considering reading thisonly after I've read Dante, and Marlowe's Faust, will have to do that soon, though." — Mar 28, 2013 11:41AM
"Considering reading thisonly after I've read Dante, and Marlowe's Faust, will have to do that soon, though." — Mar 28, 2013 11:41AM
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"Skipped the poetry in order to read his essays for now. Will probably forgo the poems completely till I've managed to read A Drunk Man Look at the Thistle." — Mar 10, 2013 11:36AM
"Skipped the poetry in order to read his essays for now. Will probably forgo the poems completely till I've managed to read A Drunk Man Look at the Thistle." — Mar 10, 2013 11:36AM
“The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.”
― The Benefactor
― The Benefactor
“Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual.”
― The Zürau Aphorisms
― The Zürau Aphorisms
“One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.”
― Paths in Utopia
― Paths in Utopia
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“There existed very long saxophones from years ago. The player sat on their chair like a cellist; that same sort of feeling to it as well - unlike for example the way a harpist would be: the whole act differing in a very fundamental sense. Although harpists are fine. There is nothing to be said against harpists by any means whatsoever.”
― A Disaffection
― A Disaffection
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