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“He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.”
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
“Voor het geluk zijn we jammerlijk afhankelijk van onze medemensen - zij kunnen ons naar believen hun liefde en hun zorgen geven of onthouden; het ongeluk kunnen we onszelf altijd, naar eigen goeddunken en met het grootste gemak, toedienen.”
― Een verlangen naar ontroostbaarheid: Over leven, kunst en dood
― Een verlangen naar ontroostbaarheid: Over leven, kunst en dood
“I don't believe the cure for loneliness is meeting someone, not necessarily. I think it's about two things: learning how to befriend yourself and understanding that many of the things that seem to afflict us as individuals are in fact a result of larger forces of stigma and exclusion, which can and should be resisted.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.”
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
Ralph’s 2025 Year in Books
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