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“It's said that ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance is this: a vine that
sneaks up a tree, killing not by
poison, but by blocking out its
light.”
― Call Us What We Carry
Ignorance is this: a vine that
sneaks up a tree, killing not by
poison, but by blocking out its
light.”
― Call Us What We Carry
“History and elegy are akin. The word “history” comes from an ancient Greek verb ίστωρειν meaning “to ask.” One who asks about things—about their dimensions, weight, location, moods, names, holiness, smell—is an historian. But the asking is not idle. It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself. —Anne Carson”
― Call Us What We Carry
― Call Us What We Carry
“The past is an inheritance, a gift and a burden. It can’t be shirked. You carry it everywhere. There’s nothing for it but to get to know it.”
― These Truths: A History of the United States
― These Truths: A History of the United States
“We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence, I know not. ~John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1774”
― John Adams
― John Adams
“To mention just by one way of an example, I have a more or less irresistible passion for books and the constant need to improve my mind, to study if you like, just as I have a need to eat bread. You will understand that. When I lived in other surroundings, surroundings full of pictures and works of art, I conceived a violent, almost fanatical passion for those surroundings, as you know. And I do not regret that, and even now, far from home, I often feel homesick for the land of pictures.”
― The Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh
― The Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh
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