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“The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead…”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“Those sages of the ancient world, unbound by dogma of any kind, thought as we do in terms of physics, or rather, physiology, as applied to the whole universe: they envisaged the end of man and the dying out of this sphere.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“There’s an intimacy in listening to somebody’s lies, I’ve always thought—you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are.”
― A Partial History of Lost Causes
― A Partial History of Lost Causes
“This Second Century appeals to me because it was the last century, for a very long period of time, in which men could think and express themselves with full freedom. As for us, we are perhaps already very far from such times as that.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
Ljiljana’s 2025 Year in Books
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