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"I think I ordered this accidentally but I forget exactly how." — Nov 01, 2025 03:39PM
"I think I ordered this accidentally but I forget exactly how." — Nov 01, 2025 03:39PM
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.”
― The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
― The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
“And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain.
Therefore, Farewell:”
― The Essays: A Selection
Therefore, Farewell:”
― The Essays: A Selection
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.”
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