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“Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual.”
― The Zürau Aphorisms
― The Zürau Aphorisms
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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“When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
Arrived at the mountain-top
He cried: "Woe to my knowledge!
I intended to see good white lands
And bad black lands—
But the scene is grey.”
― The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
Arrived at the mountain-top
He cried: "Woe to my knowledge!
I intended to see good white lands
And bad black lands—
But the scene is grey.”
― The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
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“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.”
― Lectures on Literature
― Lectures on Literature
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