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Emma
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a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
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“The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and
necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
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necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
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“Multitude, solitude: identical terms, and interchangeable by the active and fertile poet. The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd.”
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“This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. His nesting places - the activities that are intimately associated with boredom - are already extinct in the cities and are declining in the country as well. With this the gift for listening is lost and the community of listeners disappears. For storytelling is always the art of repeated stories, and this art is lost when the stories are no longer retained.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Samuel’s 2025 Year in Books
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