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“For that is one of the greatest curses of the high-achieving mentality: the envy that it forces on you - the desperation, not simply to be loved, but to be loved, as Auden says, alone.”
― Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
― Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
“You won’t be able to recognize the things you really care about until you have released your grip on all the things that you’ve been taught to care about.”
― Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
― Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
“I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.
"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.”
― Pride and Prejudice
"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.”
― Pride and Prejudice
“Pirates could happen to anyone.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.”
― Postscript to the Name of the Rose
― Postscript to the Name of the Rose
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