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"About halfway through this reread and struck by what a perfect time in my great books journey this was to pick it up. Last year I was reading Mesopotamian and other ancient literature, and I just finished the Iliad, and Paradise Lost follows SO perfectly after these." — Jun 04, 2026 06:02AM
"About halfway through this reread and struck by what a perfect time in my great books journey this was to pick it up. Last year I was reading Mesopotamian and other ancient literature, and I just finished the Iliad, and Paradise Lost follows SO perfectly after these." — Jun 04, 2026 06:02AM
The fog slopped over its low houses like a bucketful of cold soup over a row of dirty stoves.
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.”
― Emily of New Moon
― Emily of New Moon
“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.”
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“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
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“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”
― Nature and Selected Essays
― Nature and Selected Essays
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