11 books
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2 voters
Degradation
26 books
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137 voters
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It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.
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― Among the Missing
― Among the Missing
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From the orators were made talkers; from historians, polyhistors; from philosophers, sophists; from poets, wits.
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― Writings on Philosophy and Language
― Writings on Philosophy and Language
