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Clichés are detrimental insofar as they inspire us to believe that they adequately describe a situation while merely grazing its surface. And if this matters, it is because the way we speak is ultimately linked to the way we feel, because
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“Alas, Madame Straus, there are no certainties, even grammatical ones.… [O]nly that which bears the imprint of our choice, our taste, our uncertainty, our desire and our weakness can be beautiful.”
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
“So if speaking in clichés is problematic, it is because the world itself contains a far broader range of rainfalls, moons, sunshines, and emotions than stock expressions either capture or teach us to expect. Proust’s novel is filled with people who behave in un-stock ways.”
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
“Clichés are detrimental insofar as they inspire us to believe that they adequately describe a situation while merely grazing its surface. And if this matters, it is because the way we speak is ultimately linked to the way we feel, because how we describe the world must at some level reflect how we first experience it.”
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
“twenty-four humans have flown to the Moon, and twelve have walked on it.”
― Apollo 13
― Apollo 13
Clee’s 2025 Year in Books
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