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“The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.”
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“There is no favorable wind for the sailor who doesn’t know where to go”
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“No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption.”
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“The true Renaissance person is endowed with panoramic attention.... The habit of noticing the ensemble of everything and its constituent parts is a matter of will, not of innate aptitude. It involves the conscious noticing of things and the gaps that separate and connect them.”
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Mike’s 2025 Year in Books
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