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read in April 2020
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Memoirs of Hadrian is monumental. Yourcenar expounds at length on the thoughts of Emperor Hadrian at the height of the Pax Romana, and what he may have felt about Greece, Rome, rulership, and human nature. Grounded in history, but also making no pret
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"Some would say the best experience of fiction is to be found when you are unable to put down a book in the dead of the night. Certainly, that is true of the most entertaining of books.
But the pinnacle of fiction, to my mind, is a book that you are forced to put down, and ruminate upon while the world sleeps. I already know I’m going to be thinking about “the memoirs... “ for at least some months to come" — Apr 05, 2020 02:06PM
"Some would say the best experience of fiction is to be found when you are unable to put down a book in the dead of the night. Certainly, that is true of the most entertaining of books.
But the pinnacle of fiction, to my mind, is a book that you are forced to put down, and ruminate upon while the world sleeps. I already know I’m going to be thinking about “the memoirs... “ for at least some months to come" — Apr 05, 2020 02:06PM
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
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“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
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“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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