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“The things I assert most vigorously are those that I resisted long and accepted late.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears. Take in what is there and give no thought to what might have been there or what is somewhere else.”
― Surprised by Joy: The shape of my early life
― Surprised by Joy: The shape of my early life
“Divine punishment are also mercies.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Orpheas’s 2025 Year in Books
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