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Valeria Cossati’s impulse to keep a diary leads not so much to the knowledge of good and evil as it does to self-knowledge, advocated by Socrates and serving as a cornerstone of philosophical inquiry ever since. In Valeria’s case, it also
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Self-knowledge
“life is very long, unless it is not.” Sadie knew this to be a tautology, but it also happened to be true.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“William Congreve. Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d, Nor hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.”
― The Murder Sorority
― The Murder Sorority
“Lev-en-thal to Le-vov! Lev-en-thal to Le-vov!” was an anapest”
― American Pastoral
― American Pastoral
“what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration.”
― American Pastoral
― American Pastoral
“Baudelaire’s “The Remorse of the Dead.”
― Star Island
― Star Island
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