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To the surprise of any visiting alien, humans blithely educate themselves as if the chief requirement of adulthood were the possession of a set of technical skills, with no acknowledgement of the fact that what mostly runs us into the sands
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“From our bed”
― Varieties of Melancholy: A Hopeful Guide to Our Sombre Moods
― Varieties of Melancholy: A Hopeful Guide to Our Sombre Moods
“Beshrew me if I think anything more requisite than silence for a man who secludes himself in order to study!”
― Seneca's Letters from a Stoic
― Seneca's Letters from a Stoic
“Self-acceptance can feel impossible when perfection is meant to be the norm.”
― Varieties of Melancholy: A Hopeful Guide to Our Sombre Moods
― Varieties of Melancholy: A Hopeful Guide to Our Sombre Moods
“But Mount Fuji is simultaneously a spiritual phenomenon”
― Varieties of Melancholy: A Hopeful Guide to Our Sombre Moods
― Varieties of Melancholy: A Hopeful Guide to Our Sombre Moods
“32. That no one can say truthfully that you are not a straightforward or honest person. That anyone who thinks that believes a falsehood. The responsibility is all yours; no one can stop you from being honest or straightforward. Simply resolve not to go on living if you aren’t. It would be contrary to the logos.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
Darrell’s 2025 Year in Books
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