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“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
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“If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”
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“be softer with you.
you are a breathing thing.
a memory to someone.
a home to a life.”
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you are a breathing thing.
a memory to someone.
a home to a life.”
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“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Alexander’s 2025 Year in Books
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