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"Throw away holiness and wisdom,
and people will be a hundred times happier.
Throw away morality and justice,
and people will do the right thing.
Throw away industry and profit,
and there won’t be any thieves." — Jun 18, 2026 09:18PM
"Throw away holiness and wisdom,
and people will be a hundred times happier.
Throw away morality and justice,
and people will do the right thing.
Throw away industry and profit,
and there won’t be any thieves." — Jun 18, 2026 09:18PM
progress:
(page 43 of 256)
"... seemingly great and wise men, who with a new-fashioned modesty employ some paltry orator or scribbling poet, whom they bribe to flatter them with some high-flown character, that shall consist of mere lies and shams ... while the impudent parasite magnifies the poor wretch to the skies, and proposes him as a complete pattern of all virtues, from each of which he is yet as far distant as heaven itself from hell:" — Jun 17, 2026 12:45PM
"... seemingly great and wise men, who with a new-fashioned modesty employ some paltry orator or scribbling poet, whom they bribe to flatter them with some high-flown character, that shall consist of mere lies and shams ... while the impudent parasite magnifies the poor wretch to the skies, and proposes him as a complete pattern of all virtues, from each of which he is yet as far distant as heaven itself from hell:" — Jun 17, 2026 12:45PM
Mark André said:
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Only after you have read Dubliners & Portrait & Ulysses a half a dozen times each, and your mind still demands more Joyce, are you ready to read Finnegans Wake.
"
progress:
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"... an impressive private reputation for whispered sins?" — Jun 19, 2026 07:28AM
"... an impressive private reputation for whispered sins?" — Jun 19, 2026 07:28AM
“The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me . . .”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Every time I seek to relive the emotion of a previous reading, I experience different and unexpected impressions, and do not find again those of before.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,”
― Hamlet
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,”
― Hamlet
“Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable; as language, sleep, madness, dreams, beasts, sex.”
― Nature
― Nature
“Had they but courage equal to desire?”
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