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“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.”
― The Republic of Plato
― The Republic of Plato
“Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle...”
― Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
― Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."
[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
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[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
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“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
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