“it does not profit a man that he gain the whole world if he lose his own soul,”
― My Life with the Eskimo
― My Life with the Eskimo
“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river.”
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“Literature endures like the universal spirit,
And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men.”
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And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men.”
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“History is the poisoned well, seeping into the ground-water. It’s not the unknown past we’re doomed to repeat, but the past we know. Every recorded event is a brick of potential, of precedent, thrown into the future. Eventually the idea will hit someone in the back of the head. This is the duplicity of history: an idea recorded will become an idea resurrected. Out of fertile ground, the compost of history.”
― Fugitive Pieces
― Fugitive Pieces
“There's only two types of people in the world: the ones that entertain, and the ones that observe.”
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