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“at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.”
― The Consolations of Philosophy
― The Consolations of Philosophy
“Americanism: Using money you haven't earned to buy things you don't need to impress people you don't like.”
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“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”
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“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
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“...no one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfilment.”
― The Consolations of Philosophy
― The Consolations of Philosophy
Harrison’s 2025 Year in Books
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