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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
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“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
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“...I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few... ”
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“Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
― Oedipus Rex
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
― Oedipus Rex
“There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Seria’s 2025 Year in Books
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