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“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.”
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“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”
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“Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Dylanists
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For Bob Dylan fans interested in understanding and discussing the literary merits of his work.
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