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Benji is on page 95 of 328 of Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill
Naturally, the imaginative apprehension of meaning cannot promise the certainty of dispassionate, logical investigation; but, nonetheless, the former involves a profound faith without which we definitely cannot live well, and without which we sometimes cannot live at all - a lesson learned by Mill at age twenty.
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Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill

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Benji is on page 91 of 328 of Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill
Virtue for its own sake is desired only by those who recognize its intrinsic value - by those who appreciate that virtue is integral to happiness.
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Benji is on page 130 of 264 of The Evolution of Power: A New Understanding of the History of Life
Despite the disastrous effects of mass extinctions, the aftermath of the crises set the stage for the evolution of traits that would later prove to be critical for the establishment of new, more powerful lineages and a new world order.
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Benji is on page 128 of 264 of The Evolution of Power: A New Understanding of the History of Life
In the ecosystems of nature, the only generally applicable mechanism for reducing inequality and diversity seems to be extinction, which disproportionately targets the most powerful players.
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The Evolution of Power: A New Understanding of the History of Life

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Benji is finished with By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]
Je europäischer ein Mensch in Europa gelebt, um so härter wurde er von der Faust gezüchtigt, die Europa zerschlug.
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By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]

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Benji is finished with By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]
Einmal als er mich fragte, wie ich einen schwierigen Satz in ›Portrait of an artist‹ deutsch wiedergeben würde, versuchten wir die Formung zusammen in Italienisch und Französisch; er hatte für jedes Wort vier oder fünf in jedem Idiom parat, selbst die dialektischen, und wußte ihren Valeur, ihr Gewicht bis in die kleinste Nuance.
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By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]

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Je mehr ich ihn kennenlernte, desto mehr setzte er mich durch seine
phantastische Sprachkenntnis in Erstaunen; hinter dieser runden, fest gehämmerten Stirn, die im elektrischen Licht wie Porzellan glatt glänzte, waren alle Vokabeln aller Idiome eingestanzt, und er spielte sie in brillantester Weise durcheinander.
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Ich weiß nur und fühle die Pflicht, es dankbar auszusagen, welch eine Lehre, welch eine Beglückung die Gegenwart solcher heilig der Perfektion Verschworenen inmitten einer schon sich mechanisierenden Welt für
uns gewesen ist.
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By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]

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Aber doch: in seinem Letzten, seinem Verborgensten erkennt man ein Volk oder eine Stadt nie durch Bücher und selbst nicht durch fleißigstes Flanieren, sondern immer nur durch seine besten Menschen. Einzig aus geistiger Freundschaft mit den Lebenden gewinnt man Einblick in die wirklichen Zusammenhänge zwischen Volk und Land; alles Beobachten von außen bleibt ein unechtes und voreiliges Bild.
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By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]

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Benji is on page 328 of 464 of Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
But is Joyce a great writer? Connolly is not sure. To begin with, 'he asks too much of his ideal reader.' 'Am I the only person,' Connolly wonders, who finds 'the plans and keys and clues and commentaries on Joyce's books more exhilarating than the originals?'
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Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker

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Benji is on page 310 of 464 of Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
He was no longer a Christian himself; but he converted the temple to new uses instead of trying to knock it down, regarding it as a superior kind of human folly and one which, interpreted by a secular artist, contained obscured bits of truth.
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Benji is on page 301 of 464 of Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
Wit can be a way of seeing the world. Johnson describes it as an 'unexpected copulation of ideas, the discovery of some occult relation between images in appearance remote from each other.'
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Benji is on page 293 of 464 of Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
Many of the facts Ellmann collected for James Joyce are mundane or commonplace, the sort most biographers omit. 'Don't you think the way a genius ties his tie is important?' he once asked the Irish filmmaker Sean O'Mordha.
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Benji is on page 201 of 464 of Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
Yeats is always looking to further and to celebrate an aristocracy of culture, while Joyce, who depends more than Yeats upon such an aristocracy to read him, declines to endorse it, and in his work is concerned only with people who, he said, make less than a thousand pounds a year.
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Benji is on page 183 of 464 of Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
I do not think the business of education is to entertain students, or to make them feel good ... if inadvertently in the course of being instructed they should feel good, so much the better.
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Benji is on page 170 of 464 of Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
Although she and her sister Katty corresponded 'continuously' (Lucy Ellmann's word), sometime in the 1980s Katty, described by Lucy as 'very houseproud,' decided, as Lucy put it, 'to throw out all of my mother's letters - purely for tidying purposes ... My father was beside himself when he heard this, claiming that the whole history of our family was in those letters.'
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Benji is on page 161 of 464 of Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
Agnes describes him as 'middle-aged, paunchy and stupid,' the sort of man who 'overcame indifference or hostility by his slowness to comprehend it.'
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Benji is on page 160 of 464 of Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
At one point he owned a bakery, which failed in part because he gave all the bread away at the end of the day, so that eventually this became the only time customers turned up.
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Benji is on page 124 of 464 of Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
In recounting this anecdote in a later letter to Smith, Ellmann observed that 'the interesting thing about the British upper classes is that they actually act just as their caricaturists say.'
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Benji is on page 104 of 464 of Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
Ellmann writes of meeting two 'prize specimens' of the community at the rabbi's house, one of whom irritated him by claiming to be interested in people rather than culture, 'as if the people were independent of the culture. It's bad enough being uncultivated without attempting to justify it.'
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Benji is on page 24 of 464 of Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
Children like him should be patented and put into every home!
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Benji is on page 24 of 464 of Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
Erwin she describes as 'handicapped by his natural ability which could easily foster idleness.'
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Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker

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Benji is finished with By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]
Ich weiß von einem Künstler nich genug, wenn ich nur sein geschaffenes Werk vor mir habe, und bekenne mich zu Goethes Wort, dass man die großen Schöpfungen, um sie ganz zu begreifen, nicht nur in ihrer Vollendung gesehen, sondern auch in ihrem Werden belauscht haben muss.
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By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]

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Immer leuchteten Bücher an der Wand, schön gebunden oder in Papier sorgsam eingeschlagen, denn er liebte Bücher wie stumme Tiere.
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By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]

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Aber ich frage mich deshalb auch immer wieder in einer Art heimlicher Sorge: werden auch in unseren Zeiten, in unseren neuen Lebensformen, die den Menschen aus jeder innern Sammlung mörderisch hinausjagen wie ein Waldbrand die Tiere aus ihren verborgensten Verstecken, solche völlig der lyrischen Kunst verschworenen Seelen möglich sein?
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By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]

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Benji is finished with By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]
Aber doch: in seinem Letzten, seinem Verborgensten erkennt man ein Volk oder eine Stadt nie durch Bücher und selbst nicht durch fleißigstes Flanieren, sondern immer nur durch seine besten Menschen. Einzig aus geistiger Freundschaft mit den Lebenden gewinnt man Einblick in die wirklichen Zusammenhänge zwischen Volk und Land; alles Beobachten von außen bleibt unechtes und voreiliges Bild.
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By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]

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Benji is finished with By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]
Es gab in dieser Familie keine kleine Kaufleute, keine Makler mehr, sondern nur Bankiers, Direktoren, Professoren, Advokaten and Ärzte, jeder sprach mehrere Sprachen, und ich erinnere mich, mit welcher Selbstverständlichkeit man bei meiner Tante in Paris bei Tisch von der einen zur andern hinüberwechselte.
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By Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern [Hardcover]

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Benji is on page 79 of 104 of What Is Life? Revisited (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)
Dyson (1985: 5) has perceptively noted that in his book, “Schrödinger’s
view of what constitutes a living organism resembles a bacteriophage more than it resembles a bacterium or a fruit-fly”, which in hindsight proved
perfectly appropriate.
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What Is Life? Revisited (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)

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Benji is on page 79 of 104 of What Is Life? Revisited (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)
It is interesting that many of these pioneers—most notably
Delbrück and his group—used bacteriophage viruses as their experimental system, as these are purely parasitic, crystallizable entities in which the
metabolic function has been lost and only the hereditary function survives.
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What Is Life? Revisited (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)

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Benji is on page 77 of 104 of What Is Life? Revisited (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)
Let us not forget that ‘Brownian motion’ is named after the botanist Robert Brown, who first reported it in 1827!
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What Is Life? Revisited (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)

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