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“One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.”
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“Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.
(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)”
― The Consolation of Philosophy
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.
(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)”
― The Consolation of Philosophy
“Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?”
― Select Letters
― Select Letters
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― 1984
― 1984
Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
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