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“At the first instant I had angrily asked myself who this stranger was who had done me a violence and the stranger was myself, the child I once was whom the book had revived in me, for recognising only the child in me,
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 PM
“At the first instant I had angrily asked myself who this stranger was who had done me a violence and the stranger was myself, the child I once was whom the book had revived in me, for recognising only the child in me,
“how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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January 25, 2026 at 2:40 PM
“how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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“Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.” ― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
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January 17, 2026 at 1:16 PM
“Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.” ― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
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“when it was discovered that he was a pleasant and serious young man with no special talent and no gift for teaching, he had been put in charge of the freshman English program.” ― John Williams, Stoner
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January 15, 2026 at 11:43 AM
“when it was discovered that he was a pleasant and serious young man with no special talent and no gift for teaching, he had been put in charge of the freshman English program.” ― John Williams, Stoner
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“all of our past education will in some ways hinder us; for our habits of thinking about the nature of experience have determined our own expectations as radically as the habits of medieval man determined his.” ― John Williams, Stoner
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January 15, 2026 at 10:58 AM
“all of our past education will in some ways hinder us; for our habits of thinking about the nature of experience have determined our own expectations as radically as the habits of medieval man determined his.” ― John Williams, Stoner
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“Even when he was not thinking of the little phrase, it existed, latent, in his mind, in the same way as certain other conceptions without material equivalent,
January 9, 2026 at 10:32 AM
“Even when he was not thinking of the little phrase, it existed, latent, in his mind, in the same way as certain other conceptions without material equivalent,
“no history is complete without the history of the history.” ― Paul Chaat Smith, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong
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January 4, 2026 at 1:09 PM
“no history is complete without the history of the history.” ― Paul Chaat Smith, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong
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“In our element we were unstoppable. We owned the night, and the darkness could not hide our prey.” ― Marty Skovlund Jr., Violence of Action: The Untold Stories of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the War on Terror
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January 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM
“In our element we were unstoppable. We owned the night, and the darkness could not hide our prey.” ― Marty Skovlund Jr., Violence of Action: The Untold Stories of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the War on Terror
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“she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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January 2, 2026 at 8:54 PM
“she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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Anne Elliot was not out of his thoughts, when he more seriously described the woman he should wish to meet with. ‘A strong mind, with sweetness of manner,’ made the first and the last of the description.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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December 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Anne Elliot was not out of his thoughts, when he more seriously described the woman he should wish to meet with. ‘A strong mind, with sweetness of manner,’ made the first and the last of the description.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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“Hypocrisy, which nowadays is supported by two methods, the quasi-religious and the quasi-scientific, has attained such proportions,
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
“Hypocrisy, which nowadays is supported by two methods, the quasi-religious and the quasi-scientific, has attained such proportions,
“The more men are freed from privation; the more telegraphs, telephones, books, papers, and journals there are;
December 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
“The more men are freed from privation; the more telegraphs, telephones, books, papers, and journals there are;
“One might succeed in explaining to the dullest of men the most difficult of problems, if he had no previous conception in regard to them;
December 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“One might succeed in explaining to the dullest of men the most difficult of problems, if he had no previous conception in regard to them;
“Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.” ― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
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December 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.” ― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
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“Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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December 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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“fascism, far from being a political aberration whose greatest plausibility was confined to Europe and the interval between the two World Wars, is the normal condition of the modern state: the condition to which the governments of all industrially advanced countries tend.” ― Susan Sontag
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December 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“fascism, far from being a political aberration whose greatest plausibility was confined to Europe and the interval between the two World Wars, is the normal condition of the modern state: the condition to which the governments of all industrially advanced countries tend.” ― Susan Sontag
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“Deprived of all economic, religious, and educational functions, the family exists solely as a source of emotional warmth in a cold world.” ― Susan Sontag, On Women
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December 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“Deprived of all economic, religious, and educational functions, the family exists solely as a source of emotional warmth in a cold world.” ― Susan Sontag, On Women
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“In so-called Third World countries, the situation of women with respect to men is tyrannically, brutally colonialist.” ― Susan Sontag, On Women
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December 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“In so-called Third World countries, the situation of women with respect to men is tyrannically, brutally colonialist.” ― Susan Sontag, On Women
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“What was going out of the world was the understanding that it was worthwhile to care about other people. Few people lived in a neighborhood any more. Life was being organized to keep people distant from one another.” ― Roderick Thorp, Nothing Lasts Forever (Die Hard #1)
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December 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“What was going out of the world was the understanding that it was worthwhile to care about other people. Few people lived in a neighborhood any more. Life was being organized to keep people distant from one another.” ― Roderick Thorp, Nothing Lasts Forever (Die Hard #1)
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“I have complete trust in my country’s police …” he began by saying, before laughing out loud, as if he had just made an excellent joke. ― Michel Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory
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December 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
“I have complete trust in my country’s police …” he began by saying, before laughing out loud, as if he had just made an excellent joke. ― Michel Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory
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“You judge very properly,” said Mr. Bennet, “and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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December 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“You judge very properly,” said Mr. Bennet, “and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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