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Jackson Hengsterman
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For while an event for which we are longing never happens quite in the way we have been expecting, failing the advantages on which we supposed that we might count, others present themselves for which we never hoped, and make up for our disappointment; and we have been so dreading the worst that in the end we are inclined to feel that, taking one thing with another, chance has, on the whole, been rather kind to us
— May 18, 2025 03:30PM
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Jackson Hengsterman
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“I was going through one of those phases of youth, devoid of any particular love…in which at all times and in all places…we desire, we seek, we see Beauty…[T]he glimpse of a woman…enable[s] us to project the image of Beauty before our eyes…and we will always remain half-persuaded that it was She, provided that the woman has vanished: it is only if we manage to overtake her that we realise our mistake.”
— May 11, 2025 08:50AM
Jackson Hengsterman
is on page 474 of 749
"You should profit by your youth to learn two things: first, to refrain from expressing sentiments that are too natural not to be taken for granted; and secondly not to rush into speech in reply to things that are said to you before you have penetrated their meaning. If you had taken this precaution a moment ago you would have saved yourself the appearance of speaking at cross-purposes like a deaf man.”
— May 07, 2025 05:06AM
Jackson Hengsterman
is on page 333 of 749
All readers who look at their shelves and are overcome with dread because they know they will never read all the books they want to. The calculations they do. How many books can I read in a lifetime? When I calculate my number I subtract 100 books because I want to devote that time my children. But you don’t need calculations. You only need to read Proust. And maybe Moby-Dick and the Bible. The rest is extra.
— Apr 08, 2025 05:40AM
