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"Such a great opening to this one, the pursuit of Carcer across the rooftops in the storm.
The monk stuff about quantum is sort of interesting but also a little lugubrious.
If I could get sent back in time to coach my younger self, where would I go back to and what would I teach then? 🤔" — Aug 16, 2026 02:15AM
"Such a great opening to this one, the pursuit of Carcer across the rooftops in the storm.
The monk stuff about quantum is sort of interesting but also a little lugubrious.
If I could get sent back in time to coach my younger self, where would I go back to and what would I teach then? 🤔" — Aug 16, 2026 02:15AM
It is true that we instinctively recoil from seeing an object to which our emotions and affections are committed handled by the intellect as any other object is handled.
“What can be explained is not poetry.”
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“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
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“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
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“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
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“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
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