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“The enjoyment of beauty has a peculiar, mildly intoxicating quality of feeling. Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“At the bridge I stood
lately in the brown night.
From afar came a song:
as a golden drop it welled
over the quivering surface.
Gondolas, lights, and music-
drunken it swan out into the twilight.
My soul, a stringed instrument,
sang to itself, invisibly touched,
a secret gondola song,
quivering with iridescent happiness.
--Did anyone listen to it?”
―
lately in the brown night.
From afar came a song:
as a golden drop it welled
over the quivering surface.
Gondolas, lights, and music-
drunken it swan out into the twilight.
My soul, a stringed instrument,
sang to itself, invisibly touched,
a secret gondola song,
quivering with iridescent happiness.
--Did anyone listen to it?”
―
“We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others.”
―
―
“With a flaming spear you parted
All it's ice until my soul
Hurries roaring toward the ocean
Of its highest hope and goal:
Ever healthier and brighter,
In most loving constraint, free-
Thus it praises your great wonders,
Fairest month of January!”
― Beyond Good and Evil
All it's ice until my soul
Hurries roaring toward the ocean
Of its highest hope and goal:
Ever healthier and brighter,
In most loving constraint, free-
Thus it praises your great wonders,
Fairest month of January!”
― Beyond Good and Evil
“Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
The transient pleasures as a vision seem
And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.
How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.”
―
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
The transient pleasures as a vision seem
And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.
How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.”
―
Abigael’s 2025 Year in Books
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