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“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”
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“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
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“Hope is a passion for the possible.”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
“Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué.
I thought too that our youth was over and we had failed to find happiness.”
― Le Grand Meaulnes
I thought too that our youth was over and we had failed to find happiness.”
― Le Grand Meaulnes
“To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.”
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David’s 2025 Year in Books
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