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"Commute book for when I don’t have my paperback Dostoevsky. Seneca is still as helpful as I found him years ago (maybe little character development on my part?)." — Nov 16, 2025 10:37PM
"Commute book for when I don’t have my paperback Dostoevsky. Seneca is still as helpful as I found him years ago (maybe little character development on my part?)." — Nov 16, 2025 10:37PM
I guess I've grown up a little, it's all relative anyway, nine years is as long as forty years depending on how long you've lived.
“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”
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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
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“Asia and Europe: tiny corners of the Cosmos. Every sea: a mere drop. Mount Athos: a lump of dirt. The present moment is the smallest point in all eternity. All is microscopic, changeable, disappearing. All things come from that faraway place, either originating directly from that governing part which is common to all, or else following from it as consequences. So even the gaping jaws of the lion, deadly poison, and all harmful things like thorns or an oozing bog are products of that awesome and noble source. Do not imagine these things to be alien to that which you revere, but turn your Reason to the source of all things.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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