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"'OK, brother,' he says ... 'but I don't like this Goyaz stuff one little bit.'
I grin.
'I don't like it neither,' I says. 'It's tough enough trying to string along with Siegella -- but with Goyaz too, it's like takin' yea with rattlesnakes.;" — 17 hours, 35 min ago
"'OK, brother,' he says ... 'but I don't like this Goyaz stuff one little bit.'
I grin.
'I don't like it neither,' I says. 'It's tough enough trying to string along with Siegella -- but with Goyaz too, it's like takin' yea with rattlesnakes.;" — 17 hours, 35 min ago
Empty is that philosopher’s argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts
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“We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.”
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“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.”
― Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926-1962
― Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926-1962
“If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore...”
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“To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
― The Moviegoer
― The Moviegoer
“A reader of mine is a deluxe reader, not because I’m so great but because in order to get to me you have to take a path through literature, not through some books bought out of curiosity at the bookstore. A reader of mine has to have read other things.”
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History is Not Boring
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