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"i read 3% this morning and thought I was reading very slowly and got mad. realized that’s 30 pages. this is gonna take a long while." — Jan 24, 2024 12:45AM
"i read 3% this morning and thought I was reading very slowly and got mad. realized that’s 30 pages. this is gonna take a long while." — Jan 24, 2024 12:45AM
“Has it ever struck you that there’s a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there’s a statue inside every block of stone?”
― Coming Up for Air
― Coming Up for Air
“There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.”
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“It's cold today, but in a spring way, and I love you.”
― Letters to Vera
― Letters to Vera
“I am nothing like you, and yet I feel more myself with you.”
― A Marvellous Light
― A Marvellous Light
“That’s what commitments are—alternatives to self-obsession. Commitments free us to dedicate ourselves to something bigger than ourselves—to something beyond our shells. The French philosopher Jacques Maritain said that the meaning of life is “self-mastery for the purpose of self-giving.” This is the challenge of growing up—to turn the corner from self-mastery to self-giving. What is the moment at that corner—between inwardness, growth, and concerted self-development and outwardness, public interestedness, and other-centeredness? Commitment.”
― Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
― Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
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