April 2012
8 posts
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I begin to suspect that a man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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my ignorance of you amazes me
now that I watch you
starting to give yourself...
– Adrienne Rich, The Will to Change
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But we who serve Art,
sometimes with the mind’s intensity,
can create...
– C.P. Cavafy
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Oh, life! ‘tis in an hour like this, with soul beat down and held to...
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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From the moment she was born people had been happy to tell her what to do, down...
– Deborah Eisenberg, The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor
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It is necessary to have had a revelation of reality through joy in order to find...
– Simone Weil
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If no one thought about Hamlet, there would be nothing left of him … if no...
– Bertrand Russell on the difference between fact and fiction
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It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our...
– Seymour Krim