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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

by William Finnegan

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Apr 19, 2026 12:20PM

--You think me an old fogey and an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O'Connell's time. I remember the famine in '46. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before ...more

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“The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: jane-austen, lizzie, pride-and-prejudice

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“Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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